Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Newbie at raising cats., 1 by fly_girl

fly_girl wrote:
Lily, Adrienne's right, it's a Tersa Sphinx cat:

http://www.birds-n-garden.com/tersa_sphinx_hummingbird_moths...

They ate all my Pentas down to nubs and I never did find them. They will become a beautiful moth. That link has some info of how to raise them inside.

It's better to have a bigger container that doesn't have a removeable lid because when they get ready to pupate they will climb to the top. If it's a lid that comes off and on, the chrysalis can fall, or when the cat is getting ready to pupate, the disruption can kill him. When I first started raising cats, I used a big basket that had a handle. I tied Tulle all around the basket and most of the time the cats crawled up the handle and pupated there.

Here's the basket, but these had pupated on a leaf.