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
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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
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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
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MOTH UPDATE #3.5:
a few of the cecropia are well into their second instar and they already look super coolpic.twitter.com/woZR9fpvHB
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For those keeping score at homepic.twitter.com/8bivWrzkca
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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
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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
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I keep bothering the Patricks because they're JUST SO PRETTYpic.twitter.com/AKgz9o6TFL
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One of the Patricks stealth-molted into the third instar! You can see new red, yellow & blue protusions on him. You are extremely dope, P.pic.twitter.com/TStz8uxeN1
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These two do! The others mostly don't. Strange.
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Replying to @webdevMason
Can bugs tell if they're related or maybe they're pals?
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