Rinaca boisduvalii: "Eastern Emperor Moth" - BREEDING Guide & BONUS Selling Guide! in MothCycles

How to breed Rinaca boisduvalii also known as the "Eastern Emperor Moth" (formerly Caligula boisduvalii) ? here is a Bart Coppens breeding tutorial that is very extensive!

0:00 Intro
3:27 Rearing Larvae
42:49 Fully grown
47:50 Cocoons
1:02:30 Moths come out
1:48:35 Pairings and more yapping
2:23:05 Eggs and more
2:27:54 Selling and framing moths
2:40:30 Trading eggs and species
3:07:07 Ecology
3:14:52 Etsy Webshop and MORE

Moths? Butterflies? Insects? Nature? Oh yes! My name is Bart Coppens; pleased to meet you. Allow me to introduce myself and what I do! I am an (amateur) entomologist - and my YouTube channel is pretty unique! I mostly film butterflies, moths and their life respective cycles! I also do biology, entomology and wildlife adjacent content. While I do film moths and butterflies in the wild and even research them in some occasions, I am also a passionate and avid insect breeder that breeds moths and butterflies in captivity; it's my unusual hobby. Many of my videos consist of me documenting their life cycles which I think is VERY important because the life cycle of many species is poorly known to science! Did you know this channel has DIRECTLY contributed to science and conservation by being the FIRST to film, photograph and generally document the life cycle of SEVERAL species??

For over 6 years, my channel was demonetised by YouTube(!) and they never told me the reason why. My older videos may reference this fact!! They tried to kill the beast but they only made it stronger. It only made me more determined to succeed; and in the course of those 6 years I made close to 2000 insect videos! In this time, I heavily relied on community support through crowdfunding and my online web-businesses.

Today, my channel STILL relies on crowdfunding and community support, but perhaps less so than in the time period in which I was completely demonetised. Still, much of my content has 'limited' monetisation due YouTube determining that my content is not being advertiser friendly(!). If you wish to support my show, and my quest to bring attention to the conservation of the beautiful insects of this world and be a part of my efforts to document them, consider singing up to my Patreon! It's the best way to help.

Link to my Patreon:   / bartbutterflies  

I also have a website on Etsy where I publish my own books and guides, and often ethically framed butterflies and moths who died of old age, or specimens for collectors.

A link to my Etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BartCoppens...
I'm proud of my Etsy store and offer some exclusive content on here for people who want to learn about moths!

If you'd like to support me in other ways, it is also possible to tip me via PayPal and Ko-Fi.
PayPal: paypal.me/BartCoppens
Ko-Fi: Ko-fi.com/bartbutterflies
Here you can send a tip to help me research and film more awesome species.
I also designed hundreds of MOTH stickers on RedBubble!
Link to RedBubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Ento...

SOCIALS: Do you wish to contact me? I am also on other platforms.
Instagram: @coppensb --   / coppensb  
E-mail: [email protected] (personal email; do not abuse) note: I get a lot of mail, I may be slow to reply.
TikTok: @mothmanbart
Facebook: 'Moth of the Day"

“But what exactly is the purpose of butterflies?”

There are few other questions I’m asked regularly in my life that I answer with such mixed feelings. Of course, I could explain that butterflies play a crucial ecological role as pollinators and as indicators of ecosystem health—and sometimes, I do just that. I could talk about how the various life stages of butterflies provide an essential food source—from bats that catch moths at night to blue tits that raise their young on caterpillars in the spring, and the important role that certain (moth) species play in the food web. But sometimes, I’d rather not; instead of explaining their usefulness in functional or practical terms, I’d rather convey (not in a rude or condescending way) that not everything we see and experience needs to have a specific “purpose” that’s easily understandable to us. But how does one convey this—how does one translate the untranslatable?


Sometimes, it’s simply enough that something exists. And I believe butterflies have conveyed this idea not only to me but to many other people as well. Maybe, secretly, that’s the true purpose of a butterfly? And perhaps it is also my purpose, and the purpose of this channel.
Ad astra per aspera!