Here you can see a newly emerged 3rd instar with it’s shuck still attached to the leaf beside it.  At this point the new skin is very soft and so I notice that they tend to sit and ‘rest’ or whatever for a while after molting before going on to feed again. Posted via email [...]

The Cecropias are doing quite well. However I did lose one container of them to some sort of disease. The whole container of them got sick and died within 24 hours. The other 3 containers of them are doing well. They eat about 4 large Maple leaves a day now … and will only consume [...]