We Are Excited
In August of 2011, I entered a post showing the caterpillar of the cecropia moth. I placed it in a bottle to show our grandchildren the next day. They never did see it because when they arrived it had already spun itself into a cocoon. It was left outside over the winter and earlier this spring I carefully cut the cocoon out of the bottle (it was too small for the moth to emerge) and glued it to a stick that I then stuck in a potted plant. Then we waited and waited. I had almost given up hope when today – May 27, 2012 – the beautiful moth emerged.A couple of pictures are included here, but if you want to see more, visit my album at
http://hanna1.magix.net/album#/my-albums/!/oa/6545675/mode/gallery/
I will leave the album on line for a month or so, and there is no password required to visit or download if you want.
Nature is truly wonderful!
You can enlarge these pictures by clicking once, and then again to get full size.
This is the cocoon awaiting the emergence of the moth
Voila - in all its splendor
