Taken from her couch and placed elsewhere the female loses her attractiveness for the moment and is an object of indifference; it is to the resting-place, saturated by long contact, that the arrivals fly.

But the female soon regains her power.
The emission of the warning effluvium is more or less delayed according to the species.

The recently metamorphosed female must mature a little and her organs must settle to their work.

Born in the morning, the female of the Great Peacock moth sometimes has visitors the night of the same day; but more often on the second day, after a preparation of forty hours or so.

The Oak Eggar does not publish her banns of marriage before the third or fourth day.
Let us return for a moment to the problematical function of the antennae.
The male Oak Eggar has a sumptuous pair, as has the Great Peacock or Emperor Moth.