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[violetallnight]

Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson skating as ice skates

[heartnosekid]

the african moon moth (argema mimosae) | dianamurguta on ig

[lycomorpha]

[Siren wailing]... Big pink hawkmoth season is upon us. I repeat, big pink hawkmoth season. This is not a drill.

This is an elephant hawkmoth, warming up its wings & taking off. It's caterpillars are also magnificent chonks, and they eat rosebay willow herb (AKA fireweed in the US I think?) This is a perfect reason to do less weeding. Keep some weeds, get big pink hawkmoths like this one.

Thank you from the Moth Promotional Board ✨🦋🐾🛹✨

[sarahmackattack]

It's very important to let yourself be kinda an idiot sometimes.

[sarahmackattack]

OOPS i made this into a sticker I'm so sorry

You can uhhh get one here https://mackmonsters.bigcartel.com/

[sarahmackattack]

OOOPPS oh my God how did this happen, I made a zine OOPS oh my goodness.

Download the whole zine here

[vynive]

THEY FOUND THE WHITE WITCH CATERPILLAR! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

For context: the white witch is one of the contenders for the largest moth in the world (biggest *wingspan*--loses to the atlas in terms of wing surface area, and loses to the regal for weight). It has a huge range, and the adult is fairly common.

But no one had ever seen a caterpillar. At all. There were only guesses as to what it might look like and what it ate. until this year. These are some of the first images ever taken of it!!

[thelordofologies]

Hiya ! I want to start by saying that this post is not meant to critique the original poster. It is intended to share my findings, and I may have missed something; if that is the case, perhaps someone can correct me. But I wanted to say that I found some earlier observations, ones observed before the one mentioned above.

The observation of this caterpillar above was made in Panama, January 29th 2025, but posted during March, and posted on iNaturalist by Andrew Quitmeyer. On the same date and in the same spot, there was also an observation posted by Hubert Szczygieł. I am assuming both original posters were together when they made this observation.

Looking further into it, I noticed that there were a few earlier observations, but perhaps this is the first scientifically confirmed one. I thought I might just mention it.

I found an observation posted by Lia Nahomi Kajiki in November 2022 in Brazil. Additionally, I found an observation from September 2018, which was posted by Hervebreton during July 2024 in French Guiana.

White Witch Caterpillar Posted by Lia Nahomi Kajiki, Nov. 28, 2022 (iNaturalist).

White Witch Caterpillar Posted by hervebreton, Jul. 2, 2024 (iNaturalist).

[thelordofologies]

Hiya ! So, the Original Poster, @vynive, responded with some very useful information, which people might be interested in ! Again, @vynive thank you so much for responding ! ! :DD

The OP told me that as far as they know, the caterpillar in the picture is the first larva they have been able to get to adulthood, thus proving its ID. It is likely, that the finders of other observations were pretty confident in them being a white witch caterpillar, as there are not many erebids (members of the family of moths called Erebidae) that get quite that big. Regardless, we have a 100% confirmation now.

What is also, and especially (in my opinion), of interest is that the finder of the observation in the Original Post is apparently using genetic testing on the frass to try and determine the host plant.

[theonion]

Such a warp, Williams said, was never a danger in the past due to the longtime, standard two-decade-minimum retro waiting period. “However, the mid-’80s deregulation of retro under the Reagan Administration eliminated that safeguard,” he explained, “leaving us to face the threat of retro-ironic appreciation being applied to present or even future events.”

“We are talking about a potentially devastating crisis situation in which our society will express nostalgia for events which have yet to occur,” Williams told reporters.

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[theweirdwideweb]

[killieweegie]

Giant Malaysian Katydid is a species of carnivorous giant katydid. It is one of the largest insects in the world.This is its sound 😮

[orthopteran-spotted]

Orthopteran spotted!

[naprasno]

[weirdness-is-good]

[theweirdwideweb]

[animationcult]

[roseillith]

ADOLESCENCE OF UTENA (1999) dir. KUNIHIKO IKUHARA

[70sscifiart]

“The Peter Max 1971 Astrologicalendar Calendar,” Grosset & Dunlap, 1970.

[yungbasedblogger]

REBLOG IF ITS OKAY IF I PUT SOMETHING FUCKING WEIRD AS FUCK IN YOUR INBOX

[sophsun1]

MELISSA JOAN HART as Sabrina Spellman + Outfit Appreciation

[bcnnibeau-deactivated20200330]

we really devolved as a society when we stopped using fully painted pictures on romance novels and started using cheap photoshop instead 

[bcnnibeau-deactivated20200330]

case in point

this is a Hell of a downgrade 

[garbage-empress]

worst crime capitalism ever committed was eliminating Horny Oil Painter as a viable career option.

[higglety]

I went down a rabbit hole this summer researching romance novel covers and painting fanart in this style and

this is an EXTREMELY fun style to work in, and also

many of the most iconic romance novel covers you’re probably picturing when you think “classic painted romance novel cover” were produced by one prolific, masterful artist

Her name was Elaine Duillo, and she had a long and extremely productive career spanning from the mid 60’s to her retirement in 2003. She worked mainly in acrylics.

She did illustration work in other genres as well, but she really found her niche in romance novels. She pretty much redefined the aesthetic conventions of the genre, popularizing male models and male nudity and sexualizing men to cater to the female gaze in a way that simply wasn’t the norm before her work. You know Fabio? she’s the one who started using him as a model, and essentially launched his career. And honestly, just look at her work:

magnificent

[sindri42]

Wait shit, she retired in 2003? I think that’s exactly when I started seeing shitty photoshops on all the new romance novel covers.

She was literally carrying the entire industry single-handed and then they just did not replace her.

[assassinregrets]

she just died this year back in july. rip beefcake queen