#cecropia moth

[blinkpen]

wake up babe new type of dragon just dropped

#mog art #dragon #moth #stingray #io moth #cecropia moth

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Cecropia Moth

COURTESY OF CAROL ECKER

#carol ecker #photographer #cecropia moth #moth #insect #nature

[pallanophblargh]

I was recently extremely blessed in being able to finally see one of my “bucket list bugs” as I’ve started calling them. (Not a real list, as I’m never one to be organized…)

But a friend alerted me to the presence of this big beauty and J gave me a leg up to take a closer photo with my measly phone camera and subpar photography skills. I found some eggs she had laid on the wall and I scooped them up in hopes I can look after them. She hung around with her admirers for a good half hour before deciding she’d lingered long enough and flew off into the literal sunset.

Cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia, largest moth species in North America. Bug haters, don’t interact!

#insect #moth #cecropia moth #silk moth #bug #invertebrate #arthropods #tw entomophobia #lepidoptera #most beautiful of all chonks #I love all moths but THIS ONE #had a dream of seeing one since I was little and read a book about them #need to paint her! or something! #not certain in my ability to raise her eggs but I want to try #they were nowhere near a tree where they were laid so yeah #a passerby had a proper camera and took photos too #and I got to info dump about moths and bugs in general #I can’t help it they’re my thing!

[kierenrose]

Saw this beauty on my porch today!

#cecropia moth #robin moth #entomology #moths #bugs #insects #I was so happy I stared at him a good 6 min as my autism brain went brrrr #mine #I must share him he brought me joy

[thegorgonist]

October 4th is Cecropia moth, my fave!

#mothtober #cecropia moth #moth girl #cute moth

[lydiacreative]

Moths are magic in the night ✧

I'm ready for autumn please

#illustration #art #sketch #magic #nature #moon #moth #io moth #luna moth #cecropia moth #full moon #blue moon #new moon #artist on tumblr #aesthetic #dark aesthetic #insects #butterfly

[thethirdman8]

On my way home today I found this beautiful Giant Silk Moth or Robin Moth perched on the store front outside wall of my local package store, Willington Wine and Spirits.. Big - about the size of my fist.. Of course I had to look it up.. @thethirdman8 🦋

#robin moth #thethirdman8 #willington #connecticut #giant silk moth #cecropia moth

[swampwizards]

Moth party!

Polyphemus (right) and Cecropia (left)

#Polyphemus moth #cecropia moth #moths #entomology #ecology #nature #time in the swamp is time well spent #well technically this area is a marsh #but there’s a swamp real close so I say it counts

[vintagewildlife]

Cecropia moth By: Unknown photographer From: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animal Life 1961

#cecropia moth #moth #insect #arthropod #invertebrate #1961 #1960s #The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animal Life (1961)

[teaglitch]

custom transfeminine cecropia moth owl barn nymph 🦋✨

#art #illustration #tattoo art #queer tattoo #trans tattoo #transfemme #trans femme #transfeminism #trans art #queer art #cecropia moth #fairy tattoo #nymph tattoo #london tattoo #cottagecore tattoo #cottagecore #nature #flowers #tattoo #trans feminine #trans body #custom tattoo #tattoo design

[darklylucid]

So...I was walking down the back alleyway close to my work this morning when I happened to see something clinging to the brick wall behind a small strip mall, and when I got close enough to see what it was, my very first thought was, 

“What the FUCK is THAT?”

Since I have no cell phone, I had to run into work,  borrow a co-workers phone and run back in order to take a picture of it. 

Look. LOOK AT IT. 

That’s a whole-ass Pokemon! (Volcarona...)

Never in the forty years I have been alive and living in Ontario, Canada have I either seen or even know we had Moths this huge!

It’s wingspan was a bit wider than the span of my hand between my thumb and little finger (and that’s seven and a half inches as it is!)

One quick internet search later, and I can say with certainty that it was a  Cecropia Moth, the largest native Moth species in North America! 

Look at it...look at it’s FLUFFINESS! 😆

It was gently fanning it’s wings when I left, and I hope it found a better hiding spot than conspicuously clinging to a brick wall...

#Cecropia Moth #Lepidopterology #Moths #Insects #It's...so...FLUFFY!!! 😍

[indoorscreamingvoice]

Some moths :)

#art #drawing #traditional art #mixed media #alcohol markers #colored pencil #moth art #insects #bug art #luna moth #cecropia moth #io moth #faithful beauty moth #autistic artist

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Nature photography (1939)

Cecropia (male and female) · Cecropia moths on end of stick. Acadia National Park, Maine, March 1939 | src National Parks gallery view more on wordPress

Reflection of Pemetic Mt. in Eagle lake. Acadia National Park, Maine, June 1939 | src National Park gallery (NPG)

Kingfisher · Bird on stick. Acadia National Park, Maine, July 1939

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#bird #moth #nature #birds #butterfly #nature photography #cecropia moth #1930s #fauna #kingfisher #landscape #Maine #moths #uncredited photographer #usa #waterscape

[pallanophblargh]

Wrangling the Children onto some fresh leaves. The Cecropia Kids are over 40 days old and still growing, and I’m starting to worry they won’t pupate in before I leave on vacation . Granted, I’m sure everything will be ok but it’s in my nature to worry over multi-legged invertebrate children. I just love larvae.

(Forgive the frass, I cleaned it out shortly after getting all the cats onto fresh food)

#hyalophora cecropia #cecropia moth #caterpillars #invertebrates #larvae #bugs #insect #bug keeping #I love these guys so much #they walk right onto my hands and it tickles! #I wash my hands for their safety and only handle very lightly and only when coaxing them into new food #they’re very chill and docile #if they don’t pupate in a week I have to hunt down a box elder tree in a new neighborhood and I’m worried #will it be good enough for the children? I hope so

[onenicebugperday]

@synchlora submitted: im missing my summer bug job right now, so here's a lovely cecropia girl I raised earlier this year :D

OH BIG!!! She’s literally perfect wow....hope she lived a nice long moth life and made three million babies  :’)

#insects #bugs #submission #moth #cecropia moth #Saturniidae

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Cecropia moths.

(Photo: Ducks Unlimited Canada)

#ducks unlimited canada #photographer #cecropia moth #moth #insect #animal #canada #canadian geographic #nature