Our first female moth laid a total of twelve eggs and then we released her so that she could continue egg-laying outdoors. We shared five eggs and two of our remaining cocoons with some friends that were visiting. Good luck Sean and Ben with the egg hatching and caterpillar raising!
Just four days after the first female emerged from her cocoon, two more females emerged. See the drawing I did of them to the left. The next night a male emerged. The two females attracted four Prometheus Moth males to our screened-in porch. Exciting! We caught all four males and two of them quickly found our females. We now have ninety-six eggs and are looking for host plants nearby so that we can keep the new caterpillars fed.
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