Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily butterflies page 78, 1 by Sheila_FW

Sheila_FW wrote:
Opps...edited to correct cut and paste....I had a problem with caterpillars that I suspected was OE last September. I found I was beginning to have too many dead or deformed emerging bfs. So I did some inspecting and found the signs of OE or another viral problem on two or three cats. I killed them for the benefit of my future ones. I put the containers in the freezer rather than squishing them. I disinfected cages and clippers, tables; and even clipped tops from my Milkweeds. I did have a healthy series afterwards before migration was over.

For those of you who don't know what OE is, this is a great website.

http://www.butterflybreeders.org/public/health/disease_preve...
This one shows the caterpillars. http://www.mymonarchguide.com/2007/11/oe-on-caterpillars.htm...




This message was edited Jul 21, 2010 10:37 AM