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
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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
For those keeping score at homepic.twitter.com/8bivWrzkca
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
Do the Patricks compete with one another? Do they collaborate?
They actually spend a lot more time eating right next to each other than most of the other cecropia. Sometimes I find them on two separate leaves, and then they join up again
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