The first generation of Borearctia menetriesii offspring has now come to end of its life cycle. Out of some one hundred caterpillars, nineteen have been successfully reared. They produced ten males and nine females. Out of these eleven were reared in Siberia and eight in Finland. When we consider the fact that eighty caterpillars were reared in Finnish conditions and twenty in Siberian, we can calculate that the success rate was much higher in the native range of the species.
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Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith