Saturday, June 4, 2011

Luna's and Cecropia's Hatching!

In the last few days a ton has happened with my moth eggs.

2 days ago on Jun. 2, the luna eggs hatched! All but 2 of them hatched by the time i woke up. I keep missing the actually hatching though :(.

Later that day Allie got silk moths in the mail. I really need to give her a lot of credit for getting the moth eggs for me. I can't imagine what the mail person at the dorms was like when Allie got a package like this:

commercial silk worms in a 5 in. petri dish below:

Then on the morning of Jun 3, I woke up and my cecropia's hatched!




I'm only slightly worried they aren't eating but i'm sure they will over the course of the day.

Later Jun 3, I received another small batch of luna's too. Apparently they were just laid a couple days ago... so probably won't hatch til next week.

I'd also like to mention that i realized that Heimlich from A Bug's Life is a Promethea caterpillar. I've got Promethea eggs and they should hatch within the next couple of days yay :)!

Heimlich (above)

Promethea (below)

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