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zoology-time · 6 months

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Isabella Tiger Moth (caterpillar), Pyrrharctia isabella

#isabella tiger moth #tiger moth #woolybear #caterpillar #arthropod #invertebrate #insect #bug #ID

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bunnyb34r · 2 years

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We bought some mums at the store and as we were shopping we noticed IT HAD A CATIPELLAER IN IT!!! A woolybear!!

Hes scrunched up there but he crawled on our fingers and let us gently pet him sgdgdggd

We named him Charlie and he lives in our garden now

#woolybear #wooly bear #caterpillar #bugs #insects #he scared the SHIT out of me and mom was just letting him crawl on her finger and i was like 🙈 sgsggssg but i let him on my finger and he #seemed to like me more agdgdgd bc he wouldnt get off my finger but was QUICK to leave moms when he was close enough to the plant again #he had such a big mouth for a little guy! woudlnt shut up! just talked and talked the whole way! afsfdg but really catepillar mouths are #a fucking sight its insane #marquilla

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connie-awanderingsoul · 2 years

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#woolybear #caterpillar https://www.instagram.com/p/CiS8bN_p7_U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#woolybear #caterpillar

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thegodbeast-mushi · 2 years

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Found this bright yellow dagger moth caterpillar all curled up on a rock this cool morning in Brownville Nebraska. #entomology #yellowdaggermoth #daggermoth #daggermothcaterpillar #caterpillar #woolybear #woolybearcaterpillar #insectcollecting #insectcollection #insect #insects #bugs #insecthunting #bugcollection #bughunting #godbeast #thegodbeast #brownvillenebraska #brownvillene #brownville #nebraska (at Brownville, Nebraska) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjCn_scgl0Y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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fearlessgardening · 2 years

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Today’s garden treasure: a pair of Isabella tiger moth caterpillars aka wooly bears. They are now all tucked in for hibernation! #woolybear #isabellatigermoth #caterpillar #gardenfriends #gardentreasures #leavetheleaves https://www.instagram.com/p/CiJQK6uuY6s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#woolybear #isabellatigermoth #caterpillar #gardenfriends #gardentreasures #leavetheleaves

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citrus-soda · 6 months

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A caterpillar and a caberpillr.

(Pyrrharctia isabella)

#behold my cool picture and my atrociously out of focus picture. of a woolybear caterpillar.#bugs #bugs tw #insects #myphotos

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summerwages · 6 months

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woolybears big day at the beach..

just as i was completing my field work on sea levels i was scooped up by a giant ogre and deposited in the beach grass away from the ocean..

#oregon coast #wooly bear caterpillar #life is strange

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bowelfly · 10 months

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So I've done more looking and can confirm many (but not all) tiger moths are indeed unable to eat as adults, but information on them online is really inconsistent. Looking up the Isabella tiger (woolly bear) for example, some resources say they can eat, some say they can't, and most of them just don't even mention adult diet at all. I'm not sure why this information is so much harder to find compared to other moths like Saturniidae?

oh yeah, micropterigids are the most basal extant lepidopteran family and diverged from the rest before the evolution of the classic proboscis mouthparts.

as far as why it's harder to come by information about adult tiger moth diets vs saturniid moth diets, i'd say it's probably because lots of people raise the big flashy saturniids as pets but i've rarely heard of anyone doing so with erebids or other smaller macroleps, so there's less interest and less public-facing information out on the internet. if you dig into books geared towards actual lepidopterists you'd probably find more reliable information. anyway as a certified Woolybear Fan, i'm all in favor of (responsible) tiger moth husbandry

#entomology

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newlullabies · 1 year

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Amanita Mushroom & Woolybear Felt Hat by EnchantedFeltworks on Etsy

#handmade #felt #fairycore #swampcore #cottagecore #autumn

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thesylverlining · 1 year

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I feel like all I say to like 98% of my friends lately (as in, the past couple years, but especially winter, and ESPECIALLY Fucking January) is "I'm sorry for going silent/being so dead/distant/dropping our conversations even the ones I started and never coming back, I promise I still love you I just can't scrape the words out of my tired aching brainmeat"

...And here it is again

So as something of a blanket edict, i rally every remaining word in my slugbrains and offer, if we are friends and i have recently (or in the past couple years, Fucking January or not) done this disappearing act again:

I am sorry for being so dead

I have not forgotten you

If we were in the same room I probably would still not have many words but I would roll over until I could stick my face on your shoulder or drape myself over you like an exhausted worm and make tired but fond noises

It is Fucking January and all my limbs feel like solid lead and my head is full of cotton balls and not in the comfortable way

Hopefully I will be a person in the near future

And that person will still want to be your friend, should you have them

Until then, I earnestly need to lie down and be a woolybear caterpillar again, curling into a ball and waiting for my brain to return from war

(should anyone reading this be in a similar position, you may use this open letter, and I wish us both a swift recovery and increased serotonin, preferably Soon)

#psa #open letter #january is THE WORST month we have evolved beyond the need for Fucking January #these are all the words i have in my head now i have used them all up for the rest of the month at least #i do know how to speak and type i promise #winter just makes me forget #nonverbal

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portlandhabitatwatch · 1 year

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Vine maple is a true maple that grows quite differently from Willamette Valley’s other native Acer, the bigleaf maple. True to its name, vine maple grows in a vine-like pattern, sending stems out horizontally, seeking out breaks in the overstory where the sun comes through. But only when growing in shade. When it grows in the sun, vine maple’s multiple stems grow vertically, forming a V-shaped silhouette. You have likely seen this large shrub in many Portland-Vancouver gardens, planted for its characteristic maple foliage, vibrant fall color, and elegant, silvery bark.

Vine maple offers multiple benefits to the various ecosystems it grows in. It re-establishes quickly after wildfires, creating shade for ground cover plants such as sword ferns. As well as needed cover and food for squirrels, chipmunks, black-tailed deer, elk, and mountain beavers. Numerous bird species rely on vine maples for food and nest-building material, including two species of water birds, nine species of upland birds, and six species of songbirds. Add to that the ten confirmed species (including the banded woolybear) and forty suspected species of butterflies and moths that use vine maples as a host plant. Altogether, you can see that vine maple facilitates essential habitat from the forested mountains down to the wetlands and grasslands of our valley.

You can grow vine maple in full shade to full sun and in moist to seasonally wet soils. Consider planting vine maple as a border to a pollinator meadow, in or around a rain garden, bordering a flood zone, or pretty much anywhere that gets enough moisture. Vine maples grow well with Douglas-firs, western hemlocks, Oregon ash, oceanspray, baldhip rose, and pacific waterleaf. As always, do not spray pesticides on or near your vine maple; doing so may harm or kill the shrub and the insects, birds, and mammals that rely on it.

For more like this go to portlandhabitatwatch.com

#maple #shrubs #trees #nature #environment #garden #gardeningwithnatives #ecosytem

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a-cat-with-eyes-on-one · 7 months

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Me and some folks were looking at a woolybear caterpillar, and one of the two people with me complemented my cap ..

and I looked at the pen cap in the top pocket of my overalls cause I forgot I was wearing a hat

#personal

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lotussoulstudios · 1 year

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I am in my happy place when I am doing a large garden or permaculture project 😁💜 It is a fitting weekend to be redesigning and upgrading the garden. 🌎🪱 1. Pickup free compost from the city's composting program. It's nice to know the food waste, yard and garden scraps I compost in the city bins are coming back to nourish this garden. It is sweet smelling compost too. 2. Build the gorilla dump cart and the first metal raised garden bed (8x4x1). There will be six beds when all is done. Find a wooly bear caterpillar and give to my six year old. Admire and ask about the fairy garden and flower magical creation she's made for wooly bear. 🧚🏾‍♀️🧚🏽‍♂️🧚🏻‍♀️ 3. Remove socks and shoes and put feet and hands directly into the soil. Weed and weed some more. Dig out perennials and flowers, etc for transplanting... Connect with, listen to, feel, smell, and infuse the garden, plants, bugs, bacteria, worms and soil with intention, gratitude and relationship 💕 4. Take measurements again and calculate path sizes etc. Bring bed in and position it. Followed by digging the bed down into 4 inch dug out ravines. Insert bed and push down in. 5. Fill beds with compost. Mix it in with existing soil and hugelkultur matter from old logs decomposing and lining bed borders. 6. Replant the plants dug out from step 3. Water. (Repeat on next dry day). #EarthDay2023 #zeratha_lotussoul_studios #PlantLady #Permaculture #Ecology #CompostGold #Soil #Herbs #Perennials #Design #Garden #Gardening ##Plants #FairyGarden #WoolyBear #YayNiceDay! #Worms #GardenWitch #PlantWitch

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amo-ridere · 2 years

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#late posting #taken 10/22/2022 #instgram share

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thetaleoftesspereaux · 2 years

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things i saw on my walk today - pt. 1

2 eastern ribbonsnakes

1 old barbecue