The first caterpillar finished his cocoon ~48 hours ago. I very carefully cut the cocoon open, and I'm hoping to capture a timelapse of the transformation into a pupa using an old iphonepic.twitter.com/Gs6PLyHmwU
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Hard to say — lots of people have removed the pupa from the cocoon and still seen a moth successtully emerge. And plenty of of cocoons have failed to produce a moth.
If it's anything like raising chickens, my experience is that most who can't emerge from the shell on their own *do* die — but it's likely not because someone broke the shell open to help, but because they were already too weak to do it on their own
