The willow worm is done ripening! Looks like we've an Iridopsis on our hands. Few moths seem to behave normally in enclosures smaller than room size so I'm gonna release it in the nearby suburbs tonight or something (unlike the hoppers it came from the suburbs so it'll survive there).
Dictyssa and Xerophloea are still doing ok but I should probably release the latter as I'm having trouble keeping them in an environment that's comfy for both them and their host, the host drops leaves indoors and I'm afraid the hopper will overheat outdoors.
The Graphocephala's preferred willow has also mysteriously dried up seemingly from rot (which is weird if you consider the big willow is still doing fine in microbe-infested swamp sludge), and now it's stressed and I'm stressed and because of inconvenient personal-life problems going on right now I can't go to the woods right now and release it. The dicty eggs were on that small willow too so I scraped them off and am vaguely hoping they don't die on me.
I'm also pretty miserable for the usual insect-unrelated reasons.
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