Yep, most definitely a male. He just might grab onto her once the other two separate, but most likely not. My daughter was very intrigued with these moths when she was young. We began to raise and breed them along with a few other of the 'Great Moths'. We must have bred over 500 pairs, of course we would release them after keeping just a few ova for the next generation of moths. We would place the females in a cage and put them outside at night. The males would fly in between 1-4 AM to mate. Only once did we have a female mate twice and it happened when the second male stayed right next to them and jumped on as soon as the first male uncoupled. We kept quite a bit of this females ova. It was interesting because you could tell that they had two different fathers from their markings. One half were a deep cinnamon brown like the second male, the other half was a dusty grey resembling the first male. We found that very interesting.
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