SPINNING A WINTER HOME
The first of our Cecropia Moth caterpillars, nicknamed Mothra, is in the process of spinning her winter home, a fine silken enclosure. With the gossamer threads, she has woven several branches together, forming a V-shaped structure to secure the cocoon.
Surrounding leaves, like a blanket, are arranged around the cocoon and also secured with silk threads. The house is quite large, about four inches long and an inch and a half in diameter. As you can see from the Instagram, she has room enough to easily move within the cocoon. When completed, she will pupate within the case. Come next spring, Mothra will emerge from her winter home ready to mate and deposit eggs of the next generation. The circle of life continues.
Mothra’s Dad
Amazing, per usual!!
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Kim,
You are super observant here and study and wisdom of this natural circle of life is very good and quite beautiful and interesting we just have to take the time to slow it to see! Thank you beautiful colors hand held 🙂 Dave & Kim 🙂
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Mothra’s dad is crazy handsome!!!
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