As any of our devoted readers know, what really gets our blood pumping is Natural History, especially in it's natural form. Marlis (Holdfast) had been monitoring a beautiful Luna Moth clinging to the side of her workplace building. Being that it remained there the next day, she assumed it dead and enclosed it in a cup with a foil lid. As her shift ended after dark and she made her way home, however, the nocturnal insect awoke and began beating furiously and incessantly at its confines. She failed to kill it first by using high-volume dub-step.
We had read about killing jars used by entomologists, but such things require ethyl acetate, and apparently a lot more preparation. We had no chemicals toxic enough and were unable to move it to even an air-tight container, so it flapped on sadly into the next day, where it had, by then, torn much of its beautiful plumage and I (Bellacozy) had to pierce it through the thorax and out of its misery. It continued to flap horribly on its back, needle in the air. It has finally ended its slow journey to the afterlife after four days. Now we know we were supposed to put it in the freezer, simple as that.
We have identified it as being Actias luna
We had read about killing jars used by entomologists, but such things require ethyl acetate, and apparently a lot more preparation. We had no chemicals toxic enough and were unable to move it to even an air-tight container, so it flapped on sadly into the next day, where it had, by then, torn much of its beautiful plumage and I (Bellacozy) had to pierce it through the thorax and out of its misery. It continued to flap horribly on its back, needle in the air. It has finally ended its slow journey to the afterlife after four days. Now we know we were supposed to put it in the freezer, simple as that.
We have identified it as being Actias luna
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| Here is "Mothra," in his prime, pre-eradication |
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