More Moths!
The continuing saga of moths! This post is dedicated to my favorite species, Hyalophora Cecropia. They are giant silk moths that are native to much of the United States. 🙂 Their caterpillars are picky about what they eat, but once they get nice and fat they spin a cocoon out of silk and go dormant for the cold months. When they emerge from the cocoon they are big beautiful moths with fat fluffy bums. Silk moths only live a little over a week as they don’t have working mouths, but they’re too busy finding mates to worry about that. By the end of their time as a moth their wings are very beat up and usually their life ends by being eaten by a bird or some other forest critter.
