I've got one exactly the same and nothing goes near it! @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool In fact I was thinking of using it as an insect repellent. It's on an east facing fence very slightly obscured by a climbing rose.
Is a big box a special but of kit or just the box you put your bugs in? @wild edges
I use the plastic boxes that come with the live food for my lizard. They're just clear plastic with lots of ventilation holes. I keep a few in the greenhouse in case I need to hold onto a bug for a while.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
With these caterpillars I put them in with the sedum cuttings they were living in. The sedums don't need roots to survive so they had plenty of food to keep them going without needing fresh food all the time.
Last year we were out walking and passed a holiday cottage where the family staying there had brought along a nifty little bug cage that had space for a potted plant inside. I'm planning to build one but I'll probably wait until the kids are a bit older so I can pretend it's for them.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Caddisflies are probably the most annoying insect to identify despite looking very distinctive. Every time I find one I think it's a new moth but nope it's another caddisfly to put in the 'no idea what it is but it's a new species for the garden anyway' file. Online guides are poor for these and the books are expensive. I'll keep saving photos until the cost per species becomes easier to bear though.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
There's an odd aphid on my acer shirasawatsit. I assume it's the Californian maple aphid but doesn't quite match the pictures I've seen. It doesn't seem to be doing much harm though and they stand out like a sore thumb so hopefully the birds will pick them off. I think they're designed to be on a red leafed acer rather than this lime green one.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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In fact I was thinking of using it as an insect repellent.
It's on an east facing fence very slightly obscured by a climbing rose.
Do you put them in along with a bit of whatever you found them on?