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🌸 𝚍𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚊 𝚛𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚌𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚊 🌸moth and butterfly facts

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Atlas Moth The moth's Cantonese name translates to “snake's head moth,” not only because the tips of its wings look similar to a snake's head, but also because of its survival technique when threatened: it drops to the ground and manipulates it wings, imitating snake head and neck movements to scare away predators.

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entomologists are the most fucking wild people ive ever met

i pointed out a cool wasp to one and she just picked it up with her bare hands and started showing me different features she was using to identify the species

on a walk with another one he just paused, turned, violently shoved his hand into some rotting wood and offered me a tunnel web spider like oh okay i guess-

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Edvard Munch, Undated watercolor sketch 

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[rubicunda]

this morning, 8am

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YOU belong in the Venom Cinematic Universe (VCU)

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recently got a job working as a phone repairer and half of my day is playing tetris while waiting for customers

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Srijon Chowdhury

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shout out to rainbow kitten surprise for taking the best band name

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part of a larger scale wing set for me to wear around

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installation made in 7 days

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Hello there!

I really admire your account and love for moths & butterflies 🦋🦋 As a beginner in lepidopterology, I'd like to know if you can share any sources that would help me learn more about them!

Thank you :) 🦋🥰

tysm! I would recommend The Smithsonian as a starting point and public projects like butterfliesandmoths or project noah. all of those usually have good images and and information (although I wouldn’t recommend taking everything on project noah or butterfliesandmoths as fact since they’re more for documentation and discussion. you’ll see a lot of people on both websites helping with identification and that information can be useful when exploring.)

the way I got into the genera I study now is by starting with scientific/educational places like the smithsonian, browsing around, finding a species I wanted to know more about, researching it, and finding similar species in the process. for some lesser documented species, the best info on them usually comes from extremely specific databases you’ll stumble across in the process. you can find a ton of good information that way

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extremely successful shell hunt 🐛

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been out shell hunting

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my pfp and mobile background will never change it’s always gonna be a rosy maple waving with the black butterfly background, that’s all I need

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back at it again