COLD DARK ROOM

Tidgy's Dad

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Cleaned up our front porch in preps for cold weather, Winter and the wintry sleet/snow mix we are forecast to get over the next day and a half. While cleaning the small plant tables, found this cocoon attached beneath.

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I carefully removed from the table, shook about, can feel the presence of a pretty large pupa.

From doing some Google searches, it looks to belong to a Cecropia Silkmoth. Here’s a link to the entire Cecropia moth lifecycle. http://www.wormspit.com/cecropia.htm Pretty cool.

Fascinating! :)
Hmmm.
Fascinating! :)
 

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Cleaned up our front porch in preps for cold weather, Winter and the wintry sleet/snow mix we are forecast to get over the next day and a half. While cleaning the small plant tables, found this cocoon attached beneath.

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I carefully removed from the table, shook about, can feel the presence of a pretty large pupa.

From doing some Google searches, it looks to belong to a Cecropia Silkmoth. Here’s a link to the entire Cecropia moth lifecycle. http://www.wormspit.com/cecropia.htm Pretty cool.

I’ll put this guy to sleep for the Winter in our garden shed.

That’s huge! And very cool!
 

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Good evening roomies. Nice to see Adam & Dan popping in :)

JoesDad and I went to the cinema where they were screening a live theatre production of ‘Troilus and Cressida’ from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s theatre in Stratford upon Avon.

We haven’t seen T&C before... and probably won’t bother again. The production was very good, but it is one of Shakespeare’s less good plays.

At least we only had to drive to Sevenoaks rather than all the way to Stratford :D
 

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