Day Sixty Five

Only a handful of moths emerged today.
The female moths emerging are larger and larger each day, like sleek cats.

Day Sixty Four, Week 10

The cycle draws to a close as some of the first emerged moths die.
The female moths continue to lay eggs...each female can lay between 200 and 500 eggs.
If half of my moths are female, that's three hundred and fifty moths, times say 300 eggs, equals around 10,000 eggs. Hmmmm

Day Sixty Three

I think I can safely say that today saw more female moths emerge than male.

Some of the excess males which had been delegated to the verandah, were added to the indoor tanks to make up  for the lack.

Still more cocoons waiting to broken open.

Day Sixty One

Today's full moon saw over one hundred moths emerge.
The proportion of males to females was much more even.  Almost 1:1 but not quite.
Tanks were given a good clean out and a bit of re-organisation took place.
Cleanliness is utmost...ants are attracted to a fluid sprayed by the moths and escapees tend to leave a bit of a mess on the floor around the tanks.  This has to be cleaned up otherwise ants can become a problem.

Day Fifty Eight

We have eggs.
In less than twenty four hours since the first moth emerged, the first batch of eggs were fertilized and laid.
A few more moths emerged this morning, there are far more males than females.