"Complete metamorphosis" video of a Cecropia Moth includes caterpillar skin shedding, cocoon spinning, pupa and moth emergence. This, along with descriptive text and music, combines to create a unique learning experience.
I am 63 years old in this is the most exciting thing I've seen, I have a caterpillar in a blueberry bush in my backyard, I have been studying it for close to a week
Isn't it just amazing!! My partner, knowing how much I love butterflies, purchased a butterfly habitat and caterpillars for me. They didn't leave my side as I watched them everyday with my magnifying glass. When they became butterflies and I let them go, I took caterpillars from the garden to protect and feed them in the netted habitat, turns out they are moths! They have cocooned themselves with the napkin I lay on the bottom, it's amazing to watch them do that. They have been cocooned for a month already.
We had a big silver maple tree in our backyard as a kid and I would always find caterpillars of this moth and I would raise them through the caterpillar, cocoon, and adult stages. I don’t believe they are as common now as they used to be, sadly.
Does anyone else find it just the slightest bit unsettling when they're almost done shedding and still have the head capsule that looks like a second head? Or is it just me?
Very nice! Mine never eclosed in the spring, so I cut it open yesterday to see what it looked like inside. I was so looking forward to seeing a beautiful moth in the spring. I kept it outside in my gazebo over the winter so it would be exposed to the natural elements, so I don't know why it never completed it's cycle. Thank you for sharing this!
Wouldn't the brightly colored skin simply be an evolutionary warning to predators to stay away because it looks toxic? Not for camouflage but still a form of defense.
I am 36 years old and have ONLY seen 1 IN PERSON❗️ I was aged 4-5 and my 90+ year old Neighbor Fern had 1 on her foot and after I pointed it out in her garden she was ready to stomp it to death but I begged her not to and she didn’t at least while I was there❓❗️ I have ALWAYS ASSUMED that she killed it after I went home❓❗️ THANK YOU FERN FOR NOT TRAUMATIZING ME AT SUCH A IMPRESSIONABLE AGE❗️❗️❗️ AND FOR ALLOWING ME INTO YOUR HOME AND FOR KEEPING ME SAFE WHEN MY PARENTS DID NOT❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️ I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR FERN AND I PRAY THAT WHEN I MAKE IT TO HEAVEN THAT SHE IS THERE TO GREET ME WITH A BIG OLE HUG🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❗️ Oh yeah the worm was located in Jackson County in Jackson, Michigan
After seeing the clips crediting you viewing inside of the cocoon from an animalogic video, I wanted to watch the whole thing - I thought it would be more of a short time lapse photo collage type thing, but instead got a very informative video with lots of information and learned a lot of new things. Thanks!
Thanks! A friend gave us two cecropia cocoons which we watched hatch this spring in our screened porch. Metamorphosis is fascinating to me. The shedding of skin seems to be an alternative to a skin "patching" mechanism. Since you have to build the skin the first time that mechanism exists. Building a mechanism to control the skin building mechanism would be simpler than building a patching system.
So beautiful and yet so very sad.... That one of the most majestic families of moths aren't able to feed from flowers like other moths and butterflies. How wondeful it would be, that the adult moths could grace the world for just a few months.
I had moved back to the Midwest for a year from SoCal, and while in the Louisville area I had the chance to see two crecopia moths mating in a bush outside my front door. I was thrilled when I found out from my sister in law that this was a rather rare sighting since they usually fly at night.
Thank you for going slow between scenes. With other youtubers I have just enough time to read what is displayed and then they go on to the next scene. I miss getting a good look at the animals.
The Reverse is Kafkaest. I shall.not kill a moth now,after this marathon.How dare I? I can't Breathe.Kneel Not on my Neck. Life is Sacred and Holy. Killing one person is killing a whole Humanity. Lesson to be learnt. Ecology,Conservation ,Waste Not. Respect every person and everything around you. You see a stone on the path,gently pick it up and put it aside,in the process you demonstrate Respect to the whole multiverses. God Bless us All. Ameen.
Hi there. I rescued a female from my job. She was torn up from a storm and camped out in my store for a few hours. I took her home to a more rural setting and let her free. She left a few eggs. I kept them. Theyve hatched today. I want to raise a couple with my child. Theyre now in butterfly habitats hanging from a tree in my yard. My questions are: How much leaves do they need per day? How long is each phase?
I have two of these in my butterfly garden! How long does this entire process take? Mine are huge and we are starting to have freezing nights. I want them to survive!
So does it sit in limbo all winter? I found one of the giant caterpillars walking in the grass and I want to watch it hatch into the bat sized moth they say it will be. Is there anything special I should do to ensure it’s life and metamorphosis happens properly?
During my best years I would rear about 150 of these moths annually. I got my best results feeding them on cherry, although they also did well on Basswood, birches and assorted maples.
May I ask which maples? I'm raising cecro for the first time. I'm in NW PA. We have birch by the buckets and tons of maples. I had a red maple in my yard and im trying my best to research which is best but all sites say is 'they eat maple' and nothing specific
@@rochellelee7461 Cecropia larvae feed on a broad range of hardwood leaves. I fed mine on Sugar Maple, Hard Maple and Silver Maple. They will not do well on cut food, however, and it's best to rear them on live branches. I reared most of mine on an enclosed, screened in porch, although I also reared a substantial number of them outdoors under netted branches. For rearing them indoors, I used 5-gal. plastic buckets with wooden lids. The lids had various diameter holes drilled through which the branches were inserted. Holes which were not in use were covered to prevent the caterpillars from crawling into the water and drowning. Any spaces were the branches went through the lids were plugged with cotton.
Kacy Spernow I think you can buy cocoons. Also most of the moths that size actually dont eat at all. They only live over a very short span and are only mating and laying eggs as moths
Praise to the designer and creator of such a beautiful moth,no longer bound to earth but with the ability to fly.The pupal stage in the caccoon reminded me of a mummy.All things were created by him and for him.Jesus is a creative genius.
@@MrWhiteav6 As a biologist I believe that God has worked through natural selection. After all, we can't really explain why these things actually happen, why life is so precious to all of these organisms that they constantly adapt to preserve it. We just know the processes. Creationism and evolution shouldn't be mutually exclusive ideologies.
Nature really is amazing and so intelligent. The caterpillar knows it has to do this 5 times without never being shown how. Humans on the other hand if we completely ignored our off spring they wouldn't make it. We have to teach every child how to live whereas nature... just knows. We might be top of the food chain and build our warm houses but take it all away and we are screwed 🤣 we are quite pathetic really
Found one missing hind wings, a bit of one front & most of the other. Cannot fly. Flutters, flops & crawls. Somehow made it into husband's car. He works near freeway. Thinking it may have been hit by car & thrown through husband's open window. Keeping under carport in lg bowl, mostly covered@nite. Been attempting to give water w/sodium minerals added, but other than that, do not know what to do w/it. Any ideas/info would be greatly appreciated. TY!
A wonderful video. I raised a generation of Cecropia a few years ago. It was very rewarding. But, I have to agree with most comments, the music was terrible. I don't like music added to videos. The natural sounds are much, much better.
I have seen lots of strange things in my yard, and they turned into butterfly I have lost of monarchs know and some others that looks like bird drops, and they turned into big butterfly, their host plants is citrus
paramini08 That really depends on your where you live. The best way to attract butterflies is 1) Planting Native plants of your region. The butterflies around you are very much used to certain species of plants, and some of them are very specific on where they put their eggs. For instance, Monarchs only lay eggs on Asclepias or Milkweeds. 2) Flowers with a lot of nectar, such as Salvias or sages, will attract butterflies, but also bees and other pollinators.
Steven... No, they don't keep their digestive system, although they keep their 3 main segments (Head, Thorax and abdomen).... Silk Moths do not eat as adults (they have no mouth parts!!), which is why the caterpillars grow so large to about 11 cm, so they have all the nutrients to survive as adults. I have bred these moths and have some cocoons in the fridge for 2021 spring emergence... they are more beautiful in real life too and lovely to rear! Hoping they will mate and lay some eggs next year :)
Good video. The music feels a little weird though. But I guess it kind a bring some form of emotion in me. I feel like this music was used in an old movie (like in the 50’s where an old woman (perhaps a grandma) takes care of her grandchildren and then the time is fast forward to show the passage time.
Annoying not Enoying, Either you are a kid, Or never went to school, And the music is good, 😌. HOW DID 16 PEOPLE ALREADY LIKED!!!??? Oh, this comment was 3 months ago? IS THAT ANCIENT TIMES WERE THIS MUSIC WAS BAD?!?!??! ANCIENT TIMES WERE PEOPLE CAN’T SPELL?!?! YOU CAN’T EVEN SPELL HARRY!!! ITS HARRY NOT HAIRY!!!!!! 😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡😡!!!! I AM SICK OF PEOPLE WHO CAN’T SPELL!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry🙇🏼♀️... THAT YOU ARE THE MOST DUMB PERSON EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
+Jose Angelo Santos So what if the guy who commented that was actually a kid and you are still shouting at him? he is just doing a really small mistake and you have soul to shout at him? he did a really small mistake and you are just going to hurt his feelings huh? if he was actually a kid and you shouted at him like that i recommend you never becoming a parent. And all people in this world also make mistakes too... By i mean mistake it means a very bad thing you did. And that bad grammar who commented the nice video but enoying horrible music only made very small bad thing not a very bad thing and if that was not a kid then he was just probably having some problems with his keybourd probably has his A and E key swithed places i agree tho he is a bad grammar but dont say mean things like that just say "Check Your Grammar"
The music for the Cecropia Metamorphosis Video is my own composition. It is written for violin, cello and piano. I put in the video as sort of a fill for lack of anything else. Actually, The video, music and added narration is used as a metaphor as Mankind takes wing in his own maturity and fulfills his destiny of a Golden Age of world peace.
Butterflies 🦋 Colorful Magnificent Creatures, I love butterflies, God has created beautifully, let's love the creature ❤️👍💯❤️tırtıl 🐛 the leaf will eat, let's see how a butterfly 🦋, will turn into a butterfly 🐛, when the order comes 🐛 Butterfly 🦋 will continue its journey; The caterpillar was 🐛oldu; Now he is preparing to enter the cocoon; There will be pupae; change and be butterfly 🦋; We are the passengers of a long road like the same caterpillar. From the mother's womb to the world, from the world to the grave, from the grave to the berzah, from the apocalypse to the apocalypse, from the apocalypse, from the Hashir square to the balance, from the scales to the bridge, from the bridge to heaven or hell, my Lord keep all of us. Need on the passenger road. Do not leave my Lord on the way. After Kabir, we will need to gather our horny from the world; In the last breath, our sins are forgiven; May the most important stop, the grave, those who laugh, those who see the beauty of Allah in heaven, my Lord. O Lord, be pleased with us, do not leave us alone on this long journey, forgive our mistakes and flaws. You are forgiving, you like to forgive, forgive us too ... ❤️🤲❤️
Holy Shizbott that music is awful! Beautiful camerawork but that music is a mix between a dentist drill and being trapped in a prison for the mentally insane.