u/FatalaniSnape

So... two of my luna's emerged earlier than I expected. I was a few days away from putting them all in the fridge to overwinter. And one of my (fur) cats started going crazy around the enclosure that was under the table and my husband came to check only to discover a male moth going kinda apeshit on the floor. And i pulled the whole thing out and found a female hanging from the top.

Got him up top and he calmed down.

So... now.. what the hell do I do with the other 30 cocoons? Straight to the fridge right now? Is it too late?

These might have just been my first guys that cocooned back on 9/12.

The journey thus far. It's been a whole month!

Just a spending a little sleepy time staring at the babes. The wee one that I point out finally molted overnight on the 25th, I'll post my overly excited discovery of that in the comments lol

I am on an unintentional moth raising adventure. Several weeks ago, I found a battered and injured luna moth in the field behind my car at church. She was missing an entire lower wing and had a thorax injury.

It was a really windy day and she couldn't fly on her own.

So I took her in with me. She crawled over my hands, shirt, up my neck, over my chin. Made a a menace of herself by trying in vain to fly and fluttering to the floor mid-sermon. Hung out and listened to the music. I took her home.

When she was still with me the next morning, I named her Menace. Lol

She started laying eggs that first night and through Wednesday morning.

Wednesday afternoon she was visibly slowing, one foot had broken off.

We sat at the window and looked at the sky. She did a little leggy dance. I put her back in her enclosure, and she passed peacefully and beautifully a few hours later.

I had about 56 eggs from her that I gathered to a container. About 45 of them hatched. We have 35 still thriving and growing as of today.