Words From Fairyland
Raising Actias Luna
A while back I started seeing some Instagram posts about mothing. People raising moths. Eggs. Caterpillars. Cocoons. Glorious winged creatures were emerging, people were holding them on their finger tips and documenting it all. I was fascinated by seeing these experiences and wanted to become a "moth mom" myself. I could not stop thinking about it actually. I was bitten by the bug bug. No surprise really, since I worked in the entomology department during my studies in college. During that time I raised seven different species of mosquitos, as well as cockroaches, in the basement of the entomology science lab......