my friend just sent me this i want to die

big white moth with hot pink legs nominated for most 80’s insect Vid: Kayla McCurry

Remarkable butterfly look-alike lived 50 million years before butterflies appeared

Ok from the reconstruction I think kalligrammitids are SO CUTE.

this moth here is a Lythria cruentaria and we in Sweden are calling it an Allmän Purpurmätare. Very rare in Sweden and it can only be found somewhere in Skåne (don’t want to say the exactly place, sorry) but this one is what I know redlisted. So, if you se one – let it be and just enjoy the sight of this little moth flying away to the sky… ❤

Source: anadriewen

profp:

Giant Leopard Moth  (Hypercompe scribonia (Stoll 1790) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)
iPhone 6  Campus of College of Charleston

Source: profp

thesummerofmoths:

Virginian Tiger moth using a Regal moth as a tent.

giantleopardmoth:

One side of this butterfly was curiously fuller and larger than the other. It was either a lopsided female or possibly a half-and-half gynandromorph. Probably the former, although I’d like to think it was the latter. I love gynandromorphs!

Source: giantleopardmoth

zooophagous:

kittendrumstick:

Photos of the first two butterflies I released! The second one peaced out the she was able to fly, so these pictures of her emerging are the only ones I have (not that I’m complaining).

Wonderful

Source: kittendrumstick

unclefather:

a friend!!!

raemcg:

“It’ll just be a minute, It’s just a warmup” she says. 2 episodes of Voyager later…

Reference image! {x}

Source: raemcg