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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths (Saturniidae) » Silkmoths (Saturniinae) » Saturniini
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Large Cocoon
Copyright © 2008 John Hartgerink

Large Cocoon
Baton Rouge - BREC Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
July 15, 2008
Size: 4.4 cm long
So I did an autopsy of sorts on the cocoon.
I am a retired chemical engineer, so I don't have much of an idea of what I should find.
I will post images of three PowerPoint slides that attempt to illustrate what I found.

I tried to carefully cut the outside wall of the cocoon all the way around. I looked in after the initial slit. I don't think the autopsy did much of the damage. I think that was done by what ever went out the hole.

John

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Contributed by John Hartgerink on 18 July, 2008 - 8:25pm
Last updated 5 January, 2013 - 11:02am

Moved
Moved from Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths.
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