Saturnia Pyri the European Emperor. It is a silk moth and related to the British Emperor Moth (saturnia pavonia). If you have a female and put it in a net cage it will attract males. And believe it or not I wrote all that without looking anything up - sad, but true.
By a beautiful river valley in North-West France. This blog is about the day-to-day events in running a group gîte in Mayenne. There's a lot of gardening, maintenance, but, I hope, a lot of fun too.
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3 comments:
How beautiful. Can you identify it?
Saturnia Pyri the European Emperor. It is a silk moth and related to the British Emperor Moth (saturnia pavonia). If you have a female and put it in a net cage it will attract males. And believe it or not I wrote all that without looking anything up - sad, but true.
Wow, cool! As pretty as a butterfly.
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