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There's no chance I can keep all of these alive, so of course I've gone ahead and named them all after people I especially likepic.twitter.com/zrONB2KgC9
MOTH UPDATE (1/2):
all cecropia (bottom half) are doing well; the Patricks appear to be molting (they're starting to turn yellow!)
The upper-left 4 had to be moved to other host plants because they HATED the sweet gum tree they were on; I found all of them on the floor
MOTH UPDATE (2/2):
Michael tried to fend me off by regurgitating "distasteful fluids" & sadly seems to be all tuckered out
lil Tommy seemed to be flagging but looks to be eating now!
sadly, Tasha, Riva & Cami appear to be too cool to eat
the other poly are doing A-OK
Currently working out deals with random northeastern Etsy dealers for weekly shipments of tree branches because I was brilliant enough to order species that couldn't survive a day out here on their own
I just heard LARGEST MOTH and the rest was muffled out by the sounds of me thrusting cash into cyberspace and imagining a vibrant utopia with lasting peace between man and moth
MOTH UPDATE #2:
Michael, who I'd assumed to be a goner, has decided life is worth living
Riva has decided mmm OK, maybe I will eat after all
Cami & Tasha still don't seem to understand the fundamental concepts re: not starving to death
90% sure tiny Tommy is dead 
MOTH UPDATE #2.5:
all the cecropia (spikey black ones) are absolutely killing it — top notch eating, fam
special marks for Patrick #2, who is beginning to show some colorpic.twitter.com/l0bju1JUH5
MOTH UPDATE #3:
as of yesterday, both Tommy & Cami had departed this earth. RIP beloveds
I left for 24 hours & returned to chaos. 3 of 5 oak saplings were stripped bare & Andy + Visakan were MIA. Ripping my apartment apart to search for tiny bugs was super super fun
MOTH UPDATE #3 (cont.):
Andy & Visakan were found desperately climbing furniture. They are traumatized. God forgive me
I underestimated the caterpillar appetite & etsy dealers seem unable to grok the severity of the situation or why a random person wants a bunch of leaves
So basically, I'm going to have to drive to a state recreational area where — legend has it — oak trees grow, surreptitiously harvest them w/o getting caught by a ranger & hope to god the caterpillars will accept a slightly different food species. These are novel problems for me
There are moments when one may pause and reflect, and ask themselves such questions as "did I, in some way, bring this upon myself?" And I must admit that when one's problems are directly related to the residential care of giant silkmoths there is only one plausible answer there
MOTH UPDATE #3.5:
a few of the cecropia are well into their second instar and they already look super coolpic.twitter.com/woZR9fpvHB
The squeaky wheel gets the grease, so I've said less about the cecropia. They're developing at very different rates:
Marc & the Patricks are at instar 2 (yellow)
Matjaz *just* molted into instar 2; you can see his shed skin beside him
the others are still at instar 1pic.twitter.com/iGdbReTSFX
A pastoral scene from my long hike in search of caterpillar food. The upshot is that I apparently correctly identified coast live oak, bc Riva & Visakan seem to be eating it. It looks very different from the white oak they've had, so I'm not certain the others will take to itpic.twitter.com/TnT3WFmUVg
I keep bothering the Patricks because they're JUST SO PRETTYpic.twitter.com/AKgz9o6TFL
The Patricks: um hi this is our leaf The Patricks: do you seriously have chocolate on your fingers The Patricks: can you just not k thanx
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