Nighttime Beauties ~ A Living Cocoon Bouquet

Last September a fellow Lepidoptera enthusiast, Tor, had given me a remarkable gift. Several twigs with Cecropia Moth cocoons attached. When I placed the leaf coated, brown silky cocoons all together in a pewter pitcher, I had a uniquely created cocoon bouquet. Most bouquets quietly die over days or weeks but not this one.

A bouquet of Cecropia cocoons blossom and fly into the night sky. The full story is here.