Atropos will be 9 weeks old on Friday. This equals the oldest I can find on the internet, and that one was in captivity by a breeder who sells the eggs to the public to breed through. The photo above is a phone shot in artificial light but its shows our man feeding on a honeycomb solution. This he gets every other day. You can see that he no longer has the striped stockings and neat white tips to the antennae, but most obvious are his squared off wing tips. I wonder how long he will continue? He is being added to Christmas card greetings now!
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So does he sit round in his favourite chair all day ? What has he been getting up to all this time Stewart ?
Stunning creature! I wish it had been one of those that fluttered by my ear one night in september
Yes John he does, preferably in the library with a nice single malt....
Hi Simon, in his prime, Atropos didnt flutter, he zoomed about with the precision of an Apache helicopter...
What a beauty.
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