Project Samia cynthia ricini has started. 3 cocoons are set in. 3 weeks to wait

Not art related but still pretty epic- some of my moths have emerged from their cocoons! Three males. Still hoping for a female, but even if I don’t get a successful coupling I’m still happy to have had this experience. These animals are amazing.

I got sick again so was not very productive recently.  But I’ll share something from my very passionate hobby as I was lucky enough to get my hands on those marvelous specimens.  My Graellsia isabellae cocoons started to hatch and they are breathtakingly beautiful and also surprisingly healthy . I bought them to try breeding and was told it is incredibly hard to pair them, but, apparently, I instantly discovered a method to easily handpair them without stressing them too much. I alreafy got 3 pairs, each under 2 minutes, ad will try more when more males will mature (they can’t pair at their first day of life iirc). I’ll hope I will succeed with their caterpillars as well, I’ve heard they are kinda hard to handle (die for numerous reasons and sometimes for no reason at all) but so far I’m already happy I got through this step which everyone told me will be very difficult XD maybe will get lucky with catties too!