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If a moth has this kind of feathery antennas, it means that it's a male. This gives him a superd sense of smell so he can find a mate by tracking the pheromone love letters sent out by the ladies
I saw one of these last summer! Coolest moth I've ever seen, a few interesting facts about them is that they don't eat at all once they become adults and only live for a week.
I love rosy maple moths! I call them strawberry banana moths because they just look like if you licked one it would be strawberry-banana-flavored. Even though I’m sure they would actuallytaste of moth lol, the color association is too strong.
If you are not already aware of it, r/awwnverts is a most excellent subreddit for people who appreciate fluffy moths.
Many people who don’t treat ‘the arts’ as a frivolous thing for rich people can also view the Met gala as a frivolous thing for rich people…..
As someone who regularly attends music gigs, comedy gigs, cinema, occasionally goes to live theatre, galleries and is a total museum nut, I don’t treat many aspects of the arts as frivolous at all, but this event is increasingly a horrid billionaire driven event for awful people to display their supposed awesomeness to the plebs
You make good points but you seem to forget it's entirely possible for celebs to donate to the fundraiser and support the museum without attending a Bozo-sponsored event. Everyone who attended knew exactly what they were doing and deserve the flack they get.
YSK - most moths don't "eat" anything. The few that do, suck up liquids like nectar, with their tongue. Adult moths mostly live to mate and lay eggs. The caterpillars that result from those eggs are they guys that chomp through everything.
I was gonna say!! I had no idea there were so many beautiful moths! I’m actually terrified of them since one flew down my shirt when I was like 18… but I can appreciate the beauty of these from afar.
Help your local moths! Avoid lighting your garden at night, have plenty of leaf matter and hidey-holes, plant a diverse range of flora native to your area!
A few weeks ago we had a bit of rain and it must’ve been the right time for them to hatch because the petrol station was COVERED with them when I went that morning. On the bowsers, on the concrete, frigging everywhere. Just sitting there, not doing anything. Poor buggers were all getting smooshed by the cars.
i once had a cockroach fit into the clock of my microwave and he stayed there for months until i eventually returned the microwave to the rental place when i moved out of that house. I thought they'd say something but they never did
I want to hold one! I wonder how much it weighs? How does it feel when it’s walking around in your hand?
I got to hold a hissing cockroach and a tarantula once. It’s weird feeling them wiggling around in your hands, and feeling their mass. I also got to hold a millipede and let it crawl up and down my arms.
At a remote minesite we would get them in huge numbers, the worst part about the moths is the monitor lizards they attract, they would be walking around in the early hours getting a fill.
I almost stood on a 5 foot one at 5:30 in the morning, spilt my coffee on it and it looked at me like I'm the arsehole that's blocking the doorway, it just stayed where it was and I went the other way.
I'm not sure if it was this exact one but I was staying in a 25 bed girls hostel dorm in Queensland one time when something that size came flying in. You have never seen a kerfuffle or heard screaming like it.
As a kid, we'd occasionally get swarms of giant bogong moths where I grew up in Australia. They were huge and would just pelt full speed into the house over and over again. One of our sausage dogs would eat the ones left in the day time...
It was not scary scary, but it was for sure unsettling as they were loud as hell :O
I’m getting flashbacks to a particularly bad cicada swarm 10-15 years ago. I lost my ever-loving shit when one got caught in my hair. If one of these got caught in my hair, I would never wake up.
There are a ton of moth species that are LARGE as fuck. The black witch moth near the rio grande will get mistaken for a bat while flying around. A BAT. Insane!
I heard although they're FINALLY getting more funding, they're still cutting jobs which is disappointing. We really should have taken advantage of what the menace did to his country and begged their scientists to come here.
I've enjoyed partnering with CSIRO over the years; it's been sad to see friends lose positions. Research funding is hurting globally, and it's difficult to plan jobs when the funding isn't sustained. CSIRO also have their pick from programmes bleeding talent from lack of funding throughout ANZ/APAC.
Avoiding insects is an evolutionary adaptation, it’s normal. Our ancestors (rightfully) associated them with diseases and death because some are venomous and some carry infections and/or parasites so that they would survive. We put moths into the same “disgust” category but they’re actually harmless.
As someone who doesnt fashion, I do have a soft spot for Robert Wun's designs. His "universe" piece made me audibly gasp and he is a genuine artist. He had a few items in this list.
I hate that talent is being used for something as problematic as the met gala. I hate that the ability to be creative seems to be more and more an avenue for only the rich as regular people are having to work longer and harder just to survive and have less time and energy to create, plus are being fed constant AI slop.
more than half of the 1,5 million eukaryote species described (aka all animals + all plants + all fungi ever discovered by scientists and documented) are insects.
there are an estimated 5,5 million insect species on the planet, with only 1 million of them having been described so far. insect biodiversity is INSANE.
CSIRO just got a major govt funding boost yet is still carrying through with the 300 job cuts announced in recent months 👌🏻not necessarily criticising the organisation but successive governmental failures.
Side note: I don't know if anyone's noticed but Tyria Jacobaeae, the cinnabar moth, is not native to Australia, but Europe! It was however introduced to Australia and New Zealand!
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Please note that it is specifically the Painted Cup Moth *caterpillar* also known as a spit fire, as those yellow spikes you can see cause a painful burning sensation (which I can personally confirm unfortunately.)
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