[There are certainly ways to pet a moth - Guzma would know - but one has to be very gentle, slow, and careful that the insect first trusts you and is comfortable enough to allow itself to be touched. Despite its massive size, Ren is still much larger, and probably seen a potential predator to the poor thing.

Guzma can see her arm straining though, and reaches back, slowly, to take the moth into his hands instead. He'll probably end up putting the creature back where he found her, but he can't held but snicker softly.]

Well, I can't count for how these things lay their eggs, but most wild Pokemon species - 'specially bug types - put their eggs in a sac or lay the eggs directly under a leaf that they know their li'l kiddos like to eat when they hatch, and it's usually way more'n just one or two you find at nurseries... Like, uh--wild Ariados can lay several hundred eggs at a time, whereas human raised species only produce maybe three at a time, if that.

But you're right, usually the parents make it so their eggs are safe and outta sight o anything what'd eat 'em before they hatch. [He sets the enormous moth back on a stump, where she climbs off his hand and suns herself a few minutes before flying off again.] Didja know some moths make silk? Like Ariados does, but higher quality.