✨ tips & tricks ✨ use this method if ever you need to safely transport a butterfly or moth. ✌️ make sure to gently work with the creature, allowing them to unhook their feet from the surface slowly or you could injure them. 🌿 it's a common myth that touching a butterfly or moths wings and accidently removing the 'dust' will hurt or stop them from being able to fly. 🦋 whilst touching *could* remove scales that help towards mimicry or predatory defence design - it doesn't physically affect them

life cycle of an Attacus atlas moth | egg to moth

Polyphemus Moth - large moth - CTnaturalist