Sorry I havent posted.. been crazy ill with these darn allergies but now tryin to get back into the swing of things...lol.. anyhow.. I thought I would share our lil "moment" at my childcare today... we had some friends bring in an unknown moth or butterfly today as a sharing item.
The light brown one is the one that was brought in for sharing... it did NOT willingly leave the box when we tried to release it but eventually with a lil assistance it flew off onto the small embankment out back and stayed there all day. Later in the afternoon a dark brown one came and connected lorax's with the first. We think maybe they were mating.
We did a little research and found them to be what we think are Giant Polyphemus Moths and that they probably are mating. The article we used was...
http://www.trailsoffreedom.com/the-giant-polyphemus-moth

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