File :-(, x, )
Anonymous
Found this beautiful moth in my house with one wing slightly mangled. After handling it and taking pictures of it, it decided to lay eight bloody eggs on my hand and then promptly fly behind a huge heavy filing cabinet to set stuck and die.

Naturally, I raised it's babies as my own. The cocoons haven't hatched yet. They were spun in late July.

Are they dead or is it natural for it to take this long for Ceanothus Silk Moths to hatch from cocoons?
>> Anonymous
Some butterflies/moths hibernate in the cocoon stadium.
Could be that they will start acting again in spring.