http://www.nickread.co.uk/notebook/2010/04/a-fine-creation-from-a-doomed-insect/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:03:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.nickread.co.uk/notebook/2010/04/a-fine-creation-from-a-doomed-insect/#comment-729 Nick Read Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:00:56 +0000 http://www.nickread.co.uk/?p=1072#comment-729 Thank you for this, Joyce. It was a please to meet you and had we spoken for longer, we might have found we shared an interest in exotic lepidoptera. I thoroughly enjoyed Karen's party; a lovely occasion. Thank you for this, Joyce. It was a please to meet you and had we spoken for longer, we might have found we shared an interest in exotic lepidoptera. I thoroughly enjoyed Karen’s party; a lovely occasion.

]]> http://www.nickread.co.uk/notebook/2010/04/a-fine-creation-from-a-doomed-insect/#comment-725 joyce heslop Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:24:01 +0000 http://www.nickread.co.uk/?p=1072#comment-725 a very interesting article. i have bred many other species of silk moths for 50 years but they do not spin the cocoons in a continuous thread so are not commercially viable.The atlas moth caterpillar spins an enormous cocoon to house the ten inch moth..Recently i have been breeding tropical butterflies and I and my friends have had much pleasure in watching them fly about and feed from the flowers in our conservatory.I had the pleasure of meeting you yesterday at Karens party,and enjoyed your account of her escapades at the hospital. a very interesting article. i have bred many other species of silk moths for 50 years but they do not spin the cocoons in a continuous thread so are not commercially viable.The atlas moth caterpillar spins an enormous cocoon to house the ten inch moth..Recently i have been breeding tropical butterflies and I and my friends have had much pleasure in watching them fly about and feed from the flowers in our conservatory.I had the pleasure of meeting you yesterday at Karens party,and enjoyed your account of her escapades at the hospital.

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