Please advise me how to take care of a sick Noctuid

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Aliceanxious, 17.06.2021 20:41

I'll warn you right away, I don't know much about butterflies. On June 30, I found a butterfly cocoon in the ground, assumed that it was a Death's Head hawk moth, took it to my house, put it in a jar with earth to a depth of 15 cm and waited. On June 16, I was out all day, and when I arrived late in the evening, I found a moth hatched, apparently
Noctua janthina. I don't know how long it lay on the ground before I returned, but it was upside down and couldn't return to its normal position. Its wings were not spread out, and its legs, apparently, were underdeveloped, since they are bent to the body,and it crawls barely. I carefully turned him over, he buried his head in the ground and lay there, and I went to sleep. The next day, I moved him from a jar of earth to a container and gave him nectar. I didn't know what form to give it, so I poured a drop, where it splashed and damaged the hairs on the back. Then, on the advice of the Internet, I soaked a sponge with nectar and gave it to him, but he did not eat it. Then a drop of honey, he sat over it for a long time, and in the morning it turned out that he stuck to it and damaged the hairs again. He is also constantly turning over, and I turn him over again, but I probably injure him in this way. I don't know what it does at night, but it probably sleeps during the day (it sits motionless over its food, its antennae curled up on its sides). I gave him some peach juice today, and he's sitting over it again, and I don't know if he's drinking it or not. Today I found orange drops around him, presumably it's waste products, so he ate honey. Please help me with advice on how to take care of this disabled person, what are the forecasts for his life.

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