Any of you guys know where a simple man could find some moth eggs or cocoons suitable for hatching and releasing in the Pacific Northwest/Washington State? Easy maintenance is preferable, they would be my first bugs.
I think carolina biological has them, it's where I bought amphipods once.
Cool!
Post your progress with this project please!
>>2088466
>hatching and releasing
>releasing
>>2088466
Luna moths are beautiful, I only ever saw one once.
>>2089417
Same, on a golf course here in Oklahoma.
It's wings were kinda damaged. Still very neat to look at.
>>2089417
once? where do you live? ive seen hundreds. my friend even ate one once.
I have found silk moth cocoons are easy to find, they look like brown bags of leaves about the size of a brazil nut stuck to trees and brush, I just walk in areas that have their food plant, plodding down the side of the road before the new years leaves are out.
Native silk moths to your area
http://pnwmoths.biol.wwu.edu/browse/family-saturniidae/
And collecting eggs is fairly easy, leave your porch light on during their flight time, stick the ones you catch in paper bags or a screened cage, if female she will lay eggs
>>2088580
Checked and this place does have them, and a lot of other cool stuff.
>>2089400
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is this not allowed if they're native?
