Bug of the Day
These chonkbeasts. Will. Not. Stop. Eating.
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These chonkbeasts. Will. Not. Stop. Eating.
I was so busy being a disgusting ball of phlegm, I did not notice that BotD hit 16,000 followers this weekend. Thank you all, please enjoy this extra ball of fluff as a token of my appreciation...:-)
Bear with me as I post one more Cecropia photo...last night I found this male Cecropia attached to the screen door of my porch like a kid drooling on the glass window of a candy shop. My container of females was on the porch, I guess their pheromones called him in! There was also a second male fluttering around and around overhead that later disappeared.
I am feeling 90% sure this is a wild male, not the small male I raised and set free three or four days ago. Hope that is true, because I grabbed this fellow and put him in with the females to mate (hopefully not with his sisters, because these offspring were already 2nd generation inbred...).
More Fun With Cecropia
Bet you wish you were at my house right now lol
Fuzzy moth finger hugs!
When your hair’s a mess but you don’t care because your hat is legit epic.
I am feeling kind of fluffy myself today, under my fuzzy blanket :-).
Still...eating...omg pupate already!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG dude, you can stop eating now!!!!
ZOMG THE FLUFF!!!!! I’m dying here. <3 <3 <3
Some close ups of one of the Cecropia moths (Hyalophora cecropia) that emerged the other day. I now have eight of them!!!!
I cannot wait for these chubby little monsters to emerge from their cocoons this summer!
(Cecropia moth caterpillar, Hyalophora cecropia)
I EETZ ALL THE CHERRY LEAFS!!!!!!!!!
(finger for scale ;-))
Cecropia moth caterpillars. Sooooo big. Stilllllll eating...
It’s another Saturniid Saturday!
I am raising MOTH BAYBAYS!!! Check out these awesome Cecropia cats.
bug of the day on Flickr.
A big fat Cecropia caterpillar (Hyalophora cecropia) that Eric Olson brought to Moth Night last week. Did I mention it was huge? HUGE!!!!