White Admiral Limenitis camilla
Demand will is great for this popular species, whose livestock is very difficult to obtain.
The caterpillar lives solitarily at the tip of a Honeysuckle leaf. When tiny it decorates itself with its own dried droppings which gives it effective camouflage.
As well as Honeysuckle, in captivity larvae can be reared on Snowberry Symphoricarpus albus and may also accept hedging Honeysuckle Lonicera nitida.
In warm years there may be two generations.
Later the caterpillar constructs an individual hibernaculum at the end of the leaf, which it rolls up to form its winter quarters.
The solitary larva takes up position on the leaf main stem, eating and growing, until it hangs up to pupate in June.
Store the hibernacula in a plastic box in a cool place. Honeysuckle leafs early so be ready as early as January/February.