Dec 12, 2025
Griposia aprilina moth
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Griposia aprilina moth
Img credit: Insecta.pro
I saw this silk moth by Budak, and I had to share. So bold and fluffy and determined and fierce. If you need an emergency moth today? I think we've found it, friends.
Sunday emergency moth to improve the day is a Fluffypants (aka male muslin moth) considering taking off but then deciding to stay, bc fck it the human is warm ig? 🤷
May your day be blessed with things as soft as this moth.
Sunday emergency moth! Cup moths (family: Limacodidae) are Great Moths. Why? Well...
Just look at them. Look. Absorb their fluffy perfection.
Now go look up some slug moth caterpillars. See? Amaze.
They leave behind little cup-shaped cocoons. Delightful.
These cup moths are Chalcoscelides castaneipars, photographed by John Horstman (@sinobug/itchydogimages) - find them here and here.
I'm sharing like this so I can add alt text for fellow screen-reader users (my eyeballs don't work all the time, yk.) But if you have the capacity, go and look at their moth album on Flickr here. It's truly a joy to improve the day.
Sunday emergency moth to bring you joy: look at this beautiful lappet moth going about it's day, making the world a better place by existing. What a perfect fluffy leaf <3
Image by Chien C Lee on Flickr - I share on here so I can add alt text, but pls go visit their Flickr gallery because it's full of amazing bugs.
Today's motivational/emergency moth is the monkey slug moth, Phobetron hipparchia. It's a species of cup moth (Limacodidae) named after it's fantastic looking caterpillar, which you can see below. (I think cup moths as a group are named after the shape of their cocoons, it's not that they can't get by without tea or anything.)
Anyway... May this moth bring you joy today, may we one day achieve it's level of fluffy sass.
All the images are from the late Andreas Kay, whose work lives on via the extraordinary archive of pictures he gave us of Ecuador's wildlife. Find more of his pictures of this moth here.
Please enjoy this extremely fluffy lappet moth from Ecuador, here for you in case you need an emergency moth (or just to bless your Sunday tbh.)
Euglyphis gibea by Eerika Schulz on Flickr