#madagascar moon moth

[thegorgonist]

Number 13 from my #mothtober is the incredible Comet Moth of Madagascar Moon Moth (October is a state of mind, these will def be taking me more than one month due to ~secret news for later~)

#comet moth #madagascar moon moth #beautiful moth #pretty moth #mothgirl

[surebabyholdback]

Yellow

#yellow #personal #my photos #moth #yellow flowers #yellow leaves #fortune #luna moth #bee #sunflower #madagascar moon moth #moon moth #yellow pumpkins #photoset #photography

[aokvisualartist]

Drawing moths!

#aokwip #illustration #drawing #ink drawing #fabercastell #moth art #Madagascar moon moth #moon moth

[herpsandbirds]

Comet Moth aka Madagascan Moon Moth (Argema mittrei), male, family Saturniidae, endemic to Madagascar

photograph by Alan Chin Lee

#silk moth #moon moth #moth #argema #saturniidae #lepidoptera #insect #entomology #animals #nature #madagascar

[snototter]

A comet moth (Argema mittrei) in Andasibe, Madagascar

by Andy Wilson

#comet moth #madagascan moon moth #butterflies and moths #argema mittrei #argema #saturniidae #lepidoptera #insecta #arthropoda #wildlife: madagascar #wildlife: africa

[creese]

Madagascan Sunset Moth by Michael Creese

#moth #moths #butterfly #butterflies #eclipse #moon #sun #fire #beautiful #mariposa #papillon #schmetterling #madagascan sunset moth #madagascar #creese #oil painting #sunset #colors #sunset moth #neon #mariposas #papillons #schmetterlinge #summer #spring #pattern #color #colorful #painted #flying

[puppetmaster13u]

Hey You Want Some Moth Batfam Sketches?

Why yes, literal moth-people-slash-creature batfamily. Yes, they do start out more caterpillar-like at first. And yes they still have their capes even with wings. Anyway here's what each are inspired by lol. Highly recommend looking up pictures because they're all great.

Bruce (Melanistic Silk Moth) Barbara (Luna Moth) Dick (Blue Day Moth) Cass (Black Zale Moth) Jason (Cecropia Moth) Steph (Rosy Maple Moth) Tim (Cinnabar Moth) Duke (Madagascar Moon Moth) Damian (Oleander Hawk-Moth) Carrie (Orange Swift Moth)

#fuck ur bullshit (found familys ur monsters) project #batman #batman au #cryptid batman #cryptid batfam #cryptid batfamily #my art #mothman #mothman au #moth au #moth cryptid #moth monster #does it count as a monster

[mutant-distraction]

The Comet Moth ( Argema mittrei) or Madagascan moon moth, Native to the rain forests of Madagascar.

📷 Brian Gratwicke on Flickr

[libraryofmoths]

Moth of the Week

Comet Moth

Argema mittrei

TW: Trypophobia for pictures

The comet moth or the Madagascan moon moth was first described in 1847 by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville. This moth is a part of the Saturniidae family and is one of the largest silk moths. This species receives its genus name Argema, meaning 'speckled eye' in Greek, from the large eyespots on its forewings and hindwings. Additionally, the name comet moth comes from their long hindwing tails.

Description The comet moth has large yellow wings with magenta patterns by the head, at the tips and outer margin of the forewings, the top and bottom of the hindwings, and the stem of the hindwing tails. Furthermore, the top edge of the forewings, outer edge of the hindwings, and both sides of the tail are outlined in black. Each of the hindwings and the forewings have large magenta and orange eyespots also outlined in black. The final touch on the wings are white accents by the head and in the eyespots. The body of the comet moth is yellow or a yellow-orange with the top of the legs matching then fading to black. They also have orange antennae.

Females have more rounded wings and larger bodies for egg laying

Average male wingspan: 20 cm (≈7.9 in)

Average male tail span of 15 cm (≈5.9 in)

The males have a longer, more feathery antennas than the females to pick up mating pheromones

Males have longer, thinner tails while females have shorter, thicker ones

Diet and Habitat This moth’s diet and host plants include the smoke tree, the marula tree, the Brazilian peppertree, and the cider gum tree. Most sources say adult moths do not feed because of their inability to use their shrunken mouths. Comet moths are native to Madagascar and nowhere else in the world. Their natural habitat are the Madagascan rainforests. However, they can and have been bred in captivity. Today due to habitat loss, their range is limited to the rainforests located south and east of Madagascar’s capital.

Mating Female moths release and pheromone to attract male mates, who fly to find them. After mating, the females lay 120 to 170 eggs on the host plants that will hatch into caterpillars in 10 to 20 days.

Predators Chameleons, geckos, bats, and birds prey on comet moths. To combat this, the comet moth uses its colors to camouflage itself. Additionally, it uses its long tails to mess with a bat’s echolocation and cause it to attack the tails instead of the moth’s vulnerable body. Furthermore, this species has the ability to use ultrasound absorption so the bat’s echo will come back fainter, and the moth is harder to “see.”Finally, the wing’s eyespots are used to fool predators into thinking the comet moth is a more dangerous animal. The largest current threat to comet moths are humans, and this moth is now endangered sure to habitat loss.

Fun Fact This moth used to be on the 1000 Malagasy ariary banknote.

(Source: Wikipedia, AZ Animals, Natural History Museum UK, The Company of Biologists, Moth Identification)

#animals #facts #insects #libraryofmoths #bugs #moth #mothoftheweek #lepidoptera #comet moth #madagascan moon moth #late post #sorry #tw: trypophobia #Argema mittrei #Saturniidae

[highway-userboxes]

Comet moth / Madagascar moon moth syscourse userboxes!

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#ꈨ⤷ user-billboards #ꈨ⤷ not a request #userboxes #system userboxes #custom userboxes #this user #syscourse #moth #tw moths #bugs #tw bugs #yellow

[mintaikcorpse]

Comet Moth Facts

I found out about this moth a couple months ago and I wanna talk about it because I find it really pretty.

The Comet moth, also known as the Madagascan Moon Moth, is a yellow moth species native to the rainforest of Madagascar. They were given their name because of the "tails" they have on their feathers. But their genus name, Argema, comes from Ancient Greece, meaning "speckled eye," as a reference to the eye-like patterns on their wings. Male Comet moths have longer "tails" than female Comet moths

Oh, they also can't eat in adulthood. Their only purpose is to breed, and they end up dying a week later due to starvation.

#pretty moth #pretty moth bois #reminds me of the luna moth #same thing with eating too #they also die within a week #moon moth #comet moth #madagascan comet moth #moths #moth #moth facts

[tdutb]

i have a problem :(

every characters moth and why:

Paintbrush-rosy maple moth: i just wanted to laugh. i really, really just wanted a laugh

Test tube-spanish luna moth: specifically a male one, because I headcanon her as trans :)

Fan- copaxa moth: just look at him, mate. red and yellow? perfect.

Lightbub-madagascar moon moth: she is extravagant. so is the moth, so like, it fits pretty well.

#ii fan #ii test tube #ii paintbrush #ii lightbulb #inanimate insanity invitational #inanimate insanity fanart #my art #ms paint #i love these little guys #im making more right now #i dont even care #i love them and i love doing this

[scarletwitchie2]

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Animals only FB Amazing artwork by Jeff Fleming

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Club Cranium FB Madagascar Moon Moth

Animals only FB Amazing art by Paul Waclo and Kris Connors

#art #cats

[healerelowen]

Any form of negativity I may have had is now gone

Bug talk under the cut

I saw a hawk moth for the first time in my pasture. She was flying around in the tree I was under then flew past me and landed onto a low-hanging branch right next to me. She was about the size of a tennis ball and she had thread-like antennae so that means the moth was a female. I’m guessing she was trying to find somewhere to lay her eggs or was trying to find a mate considering the average moth lifespan is not very long. 

Like Madagascar Comet/Moon moths? Yeah, their average lifespan is only about 4-5 days for adults. For hawk moths it’s much longer with their lifespan being about 30 days. Unfortunately, I was too fascinated by the moth that I didn’t get a photo of her but that’s okay. 

At least I got to see a cool ass moth :)

#I'm very happy #The smile plastered on my face as I looked at the moth was probably the biggest and goofiest smile I ever pulled #I just like moths #tw bug mention #rant

[lionfloss]

Comet moth

#comet moth #madagascar moon moth #moth #moths #moth talks #insects #wings #yellow #nature #photography #green #plants #flash #flash photography #dark #black sky #flora #fauna #wildlife #animals #curators on tumblr #1k

[circusmotel]

drew another moth fairy today 🧚‍♀️ she is a comet moth 🦋 i love their eyespots 👁

#circusmotel #my art #lepidoptera #lepidopterology #butterfly #moth #moths #comet moth #madagascar moon moth #fairycore #fairycore art #faecore #faecore art #dirtcore #corvidcore #crowcore #bugcore #fairy #fairies