"Night Moths" by William Baxter Closson
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"May we be brave to allow love to transform us forever.”
William Baxter Closson, Night Moths
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The more I learn about light pollution harms insects, the more I want to try to help... do something about it. But I live in NYC. It feels like an impossible ask. A whole city devoted to making the most light pollution possible.
I strongly suspect that we'd see a greater variety of wildlife if we could dim the light a little.
Just using colors like red light can help. So can dark hours and motion sensors. What if one day, as a treat, every New Yorker got to see the milky way?
Most people doing light pollution activism are working in places like national parks & deep in the country, places that are almost dark, where the lights are encroaching especially as the cost of very bright LEDs keeps falling: companies and municipalities say "why not? what's the harm?"
The harm is vast. So many creatures need the night to live. Maybe humans need it too. We do, at least, need those creatures.
I care about insects most. But if you don't consider: no bugs, no song birds.
Is reducing light pollution in a big city a hopeless cause? Is it better to focus on those once perfectly dark places being lit up?
One positive of making light pollution an issue in a big city is how it would raise awareness. Imagine if, in the small hours of the night the lights slowly shifted red. Lights with motion sensors that slowly gutter out. You can see NYC on the horizon glowing like a bomb went off for miles, that glow could dim a bit, give the stars a chance to shine.
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I drew this a little while ago and forgot to post it!!
Here’s the boys as moth men!
idea from @ilikepotatoes69
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Planning to make this into a cute sticker!
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Night Mother - Mona Finden
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Beautiful promethea moth I managed to untangle some cobwebs from last night :) she stuck around where I put her for a while to rest and recover, and was sent on her way just now! At first I mistook her for a cecropia, but after a little more digging (and the help of some sunlight) I found that she more closely resembles a promethea :D I love her and I hope she enjoys the rest of her little buggy life <3
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The Mike/Gerry anon here, yeah, I… I should have clarified I thought of Crew, yeh, sorry, my mistake. Michael Shelley/Distortion and Mike Crew is just already so separated in my mind
Tho I don’t mind the three together… It’s so interesting and like……. they all got two hands
Daily TMA 160 - Here’s the three of them at last
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