Unfurled Chinese Luna Moth Shows Me The Stars

Unfurled Chinese Luna Moth Shows Me the Stars

Here's my most recent self portrait! It's where my username comes from. I love moths and when I draw them, I try to depict them as my emotions and feelings. In this drawing, I am feeling hopeless but there is a large Chinese Luna Moth that lands on my face and points me to look up at the sparking night sky. Its tails represent tears. The dark clouds are how I usually feel but the stars and the moon are some sort of hope and happiness.

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Why does the whole featured tags organization thing on tumblr work so badly,, like i tried organizing my stuff by tags and when i look up a tag it has posts in it that aren't tagged with that tag??? As an autistic person who lives for organization I'm simply going to spontaneously combust at this point :/

this is a pic from a while ago, but I've always kinda wondered what it was. could you identify it? found in Kentucky, not sure how specific you need for location :)

This is a very pretty female imperial moth!! The males look similar just with a bit more brown on them

The caterpillars are also quite cute and can vary in colour according to which stage of growth they're in or which morph they are

Found this pretty little thing a while ago

Any idea what it is?

Saw this and immediately knew it would be a sphingidae moth/sphinx moth!!

This here is a blinded sphinx. They sometimes expose their eyespots, which look like this:

And the reason they're called a blinded sphinx is because their eyespots have no pupil.

Super cool :)

(credits to insectidentification.org for that info bc while I didn't directly quote their website and I'm sure the information isn't exclusively 'theirs', there was a very strongly worded footnote abt plagiarism and i am afraid they will hunt me down)

Reblog if it’s ok for your mutuals to tag you in posts they think you’ll like even if you don’t talk often.

@cassowariess dw it's not too late! It can be chrysalis all year round if u want it to be :)

Merry Chrysalis!! (to those who celebrate)

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