No, not an emo post.

Today I finished putting all the gypsy moths in individual bottles, and of course had to dispose of the empty pupa shells:

pupae_shells

Looks tasty, doesn’t it?

I also took some shots of one of the nicer shells, from a large female:

pupa_shell01 pupa_shell02 pupa_shell03

And her final molt:

final_molt

I like that you can see the split in the head where she wriggled out.