Tying out eggs, Selected foodplants Lets say you end up with THOUSANDS of eggs??! What to DO with them can leave the mind wandering! You can always give them away to all your "school buddies" (along with this Web address!), or you can give them to relatives or friends....... or best of ALL - You can "tie them out" at a number of places! To DO this, first know a little TIME will be involved here! First the sacks of eggs must be carefully cut up around the patches of eggs, and a thin wire (like the one "inside" a twist-tie - after the plastic is burned off), and is carefully driven thru the corner of the little paper strip with the eggs on it. After you get these gathered in bulk, you are ready to venture out and play the role of "mother moth" by placing the eggs in various locations. You will have about a week or a little more to do this before your eggs hatch! Remember that each species is "foodplant-SPECIFIC", and will only survive on their chosen plants! The FUN thing is you will know where you placed your eggs, and you will have the pleasure of going out at "harvest time" and gathering the cocoons! Remember from way back on the first page when it was said "only about one in two hundred" eggs will make it?! Well the same rule applies with your "planted" eggs! Don't at ALL expect to come back with "BUCKETS of cocoons"....... but be thankful for the few you DO find...... if ANY! Use your imagination concerning placing the eggs, and don't be surprised if some of the plants you put eggs on were cut down over the summer and were thrown on the "burn pile", and the over-all surprising LACK of cocoons! However this DOES "pay OFF" at times....... and sometimes a whole LOT of cocoons can be recovered - from a few, select spots! One time about 200 Cecropia cocoons were safe till harvest right beside the Keebler Cookie plant main entrance in Columbus, Ohio (Some say it was the elves :-), and several other times large numbers have been recovered from various places, and it's always worth the effort of trying this little venture! The following is a list of cool veggies to "tie" various species to: Cecropia - Maple, Birch (ESPECIALLY ones with white trunks! Cherry Birch and Yellow birch don't seem to work as well!), Elderberry, Bush-type Honeysuckle, Willow, Lilac, Plum, Apple, Cherry, Witch-hazel, Cephalanthus Wax-Myrtle, Cranberry Bush Viburnum, Dogwood, and Ash. Promethea - Wild Black Cherry, Sassafras, Cephalanthus, Ash, Lilac, and Spicebush. Polyphemus - Oak, Willow, Maple, Beech, Birch, and Hazelnut. Other species not listed have cocoons that are very difficult (if not IMPOSSIBLE) to find, so I'll not even GO there, and will keep my list here for the "big THREE" - as far as collecting goes! Hopefully this info will give you a helpful start in a fascinating hobby, and this page will be updated regularly when I get more cool stuff to add here!