Thursday 18 July 2013

Self-assembly

Found the larval case of this moth - Psyche casta - a few weeks ago, potted it up hoping to rear through.

I was more than pleased when this beautiful female, who really is nothing more than a glorified egg-sac, duly emerged a couple of days ago, as my mind immediately turned to the possibility of assembling a male to her.

Psyche casta female

Psyche casta female

This also turned out to be a success, with just a single male coming to the female who had been placed in a net bag in the garden (the same net bag that is used for various synthetic Clearwing lures)

Psyche casta - male
Psyche casta - male. Assembled to newly emerged female (above)

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