Peacock-eye pear, large night peacock eye or Saturnia pear – as soon as they don’t call a giant butterfly, having a wingspan of up to 16 (!) – ty centimeters. They meet in southern and central Europe, in Asia Minor, Iran and … in the village Glinsk Zdolbunovsky district of Rivne region. – Autumn in the garden on I found two large orange caterpillars, parsing, recalls the 64-year-old Valentina Yakubchik. – It was already cool outside, so I put they were put into a clay jug, covered with a rag from above, carried to a house and … I forgot. In May, two huge butterflies suddenly flew out of the jug, very beautiful. I have never seen anything like it in my life. 
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It turns out that Saturnia pear is listed in the Red Book Ukraine. Interestingly, butterflies do not eat anything and live off stocks that have accumulated as a caterpillar. French entomologist Jean Henri Fabre found that males peacock-eye pear can fly into the smell of pheromones of a female at a distance of 10-11 kilometers! Valentina Yakubchik decided to take butterflies to that a pear where she found caterpillars. By the way, Valentina Semenovna previously surprised local residents: two years ago, she raised one and a half kilogram potatoes.
