Pinning a deaths head hawk moth for display. The usual questions - it's dead, I'm not hurting it. I relaxed it for 36hrs before this. No I do not eviscerate dhhm's, but I do degrease them. If the body of your moth is dark and shiny, it was not properly degreased. I leave these for 10 days to full dry before unpinning. The strips are glassine paper not tape. I respect nature and death, if you do not agree with this process that's fine, scroll on. If you leave a rude comment you'll get a rude repl

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Butterfly hawk moth death head released from the cage in nature with grass stalk. Death's-head hawk moth right after nymph is preparing its wings and fly away

Final clean out for the deaths head hawk moths. The pupa in this video have all eclosed or were duds. In fact as I write this, there is only one adult moth still alive. I fed her last night and I am hoping she lays some more eggs before she dies. You can see the giant one clearer in this video. She didn't inflate her wings after emerging, and her proboscis didn't form properly either. So although I did try to feed her, she never took to it. I'm not sure if this was due to her size or genetic iss