The trick to encouraging butterflies into your garden is to cultivate these plants. The female has odour detectors which allow her to locate the plant, sometimes from as far away as two or three kilometres. The lifecycle of a butterfly starts with the female butterfly who deposits her eggs onto a specific plant. – Hercules moths are seasonal, however our breeding program is so successful that we always have Hercules cocoons, caterpillars or moths on display and sometimes all three at the same time, usually from September to June. – The Hercules moths do not have a usable proboscis and cannot feed, so they only live long enough to find a mate and for the female to lay her eggs – which is about 2 to 8 days.
– They have been known to stay in their cocoons from two months to two years. – The caterpillars get so large that they end up looking like green pork sausages with legs. – The host food plant for the caterpillars is the Bleeding Heart tree (Omalthamus novoguineenis) and Cheese tree (Glochidion sp).
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– The female Hercules moth is bigger than the male because it has to carry a belly full of eggs – up to 300 of them. The Guinness Book of Records states it had an incredible wingspan of 36cm (14.17 inches). – The largest Hercules moth ever recorded was a huge female caught in 1948 at Innisfail, just south of Cairns. It is only found in North Queensland and New Guinea. The Hercules Moth is the world’s largest moth.
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