Hi, does anyone want caterpillars for their swan plants? I have too many and am needing to rehome some.
Where do they go once they've eaten themselves out of s home?
I have 12 plants and 13 caterpillars all ready fat.
I could rehome some. Pop a question on my auction. My wife does horticulture and has a good crop of the giant swan plants.
We have three plants, two of them really BIG and no caterpillars due to wasps! Any ideas out there? I have brought a few tiny caterpillars inside in a container and they are doing okay.
Its only an urban myth about them causing deformed wings.
I have too many caterpillars too, in the Mairehau area. Any takers?
Thanks catcrazy9. I just found a whole bunch of minute baby caterpillars on a couple of the plants, so I won't take you up on your offer. I usually do a cull to avoid having too many caterpillars for the plants.
Some advice for all the swan plant growers, we always cover two thirds (with wind or shade cloth) of our plants, until the first lot is eaten. We cull the eggs if we get too many as its not kind to raise caterpillars with no hope of enough food for them all. At least then the ones we have make it to maturity and healthy butterflies. Once the first plants are eaten, they get covered, next third exposed and repeat until the last ones are eaten. by that time the first lot have recovered enough.