Moth Egg

The egg of the Lymantria

The Moth Egg comes from the Lymantria, and ARK: Survival Evolved says so in its item text: "Unfertilized Lymantria egg." ARK: Survival Ascended uses a different description that suggests eating it for a lot of nourishment or putting it into recipes. The ARK Wiki says the egg arrived with Scorched Earth and lists it as well for Extinction, Lost Island, Ragnarok, Valguero, Genesis: Part 2 and Crystal Isles.

Laying and hatching

According to the wiki, Moth Eggs drop once two Lymantrias have mated, and an egg from such a pairing can hatch into a baby Lymantria. The page also names a variant, the Fertilized Moth Egg. For hatching, the wiki gives these figures:

• Hatching takes 1h 30m 54.109s.
• The egg needs between 35 and 38 °C (95 to 100 °F); outside that range it starts losing health.
• An Egg Incubator set to the best temperature can shorten incubation by up to 20%.
• After laying, a female Lymantria needs between 18 hours and 2 days before she can lay again.

Weight, spoilage and history

A Moth Egg weighs 5 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 500. It spoils after 192 hours, which is 8 days. Before ARK: Homestead the egg was an ingredient for Kibble (Moth Egg). The icon differs between the games: ASE shows the default egg icon, while the ASA icon shows the egg's real in-game model and colors. The wiki adds that before TLC 3 it looked like any other hard-shelled dinosaur egg and could be picked up.