Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Woohoo!!! A Rothschildia lebeau forbesi - Forbes' Silkmoth, 0 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
WOOHOO!!! It worked!!! I set the female out around 7pm and have been checking on her periodically. Around 1035pm I went outside and just as I was coming back inside I saw a shadow fly overhead. I went back outside and sure enough...there was a male forbes' flitting around the yard. He wouldn't slow down for a photo! He kept trying to hone in on the female. I moved the cage toward the corner of the yard he was flitting around and opened up the flap. He was inside within seconds.

I zipped the flap closed and he was flitting around probably thinking how the heck did I get trapped in here?

But needless to say, it took him mere seconds to find the female and he was on her like a dog on a bone!

My mothman buddy said they'd be stuck together for about 24 hours. Can you imagine that. He's on her in under five seconds!!! SLAM! BAM! Sit back and enjoy the ride because he'll be at it for 24 hours Ma'am!!!

Here's a photo of the happy couple!!! Am sure he also thought...this was easier than shooting fish in a barrel!!! ROLF!!!

The male is the one on the right...he seems bigger in wing size but her abdomen is bigger than his. Hope that mean she's got a couple hundred of eggs waiting to be fertilized in there!

~ Cat