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Aww what a cutie! If u were needing ID it looks like a large tolype moth :)

I've sometimes complained about my ADHD. Commented negatively on the ways that it makes me struggle in life. About the different aspects that are bumped up to hard mode because my brain is functioning on a slightly different OS.

But yesterday. Yesterday was one of the little shimmers. Yesterday while leaving the counseling office that I was attending for the first time trying to get set up with a better counselor to help me manage my life, and noticed spot on the wall outside. Just a little discoloration. Until I took the time to look more closely at the barely there shift of coloring the wall.

It was an adorable moth!

Please enjoy these photos~

I found a bunch of these little cocoons on the juniper trees near my dorm building! Any idea what they could be? Some of them are hatched, but most are still intact. I live in Maryland, if that helps

Looks like some sort of bagworm, probably an evergreen bagworm :) Bagworms build a protective bag around themselves as caterpillars, eventually pupating in it. The females of evergreen bagworms, like most bagworm species, are wingless and never leave their "bags", pupating, mating and dying there. The males can fly, but can't eat. Interesting find!

hey guys i found this bug with weird little black triangley things on its wings do we know what it is

Uh.

I just found a bug? And have no idea what it is?? ??????

Under readmore because I listed everything I could about it (not including colors which are instead described using actual images)

-Winged/adult insect

-Setaceous antennae same length as body (using below measurement)

-15/16 of an inch (2.5 cm) exactly from head to wingtips

-Four straight wings folded over back, hindwings significantly longer than forewings, forewings are nearly 1/2 an inch (~12mm) while hindwings nearly 3/4 of an inch long (18 or 19 mm). Hindwings curve into a long bottleneck-like shape past the end of the abdomen, stretch 6/7mm past abdomen

-Two black compound eyes less than one mm diameter

-Head 2mm long and about a millimeter and a half wide

-The thorax (or whatever portion visible above the wings, though likely the full length) is just barely noticeably thinner than head and presumably between 2/16 and 6/16ths of an inch (I don't have an underside view so I can't see exactly where it ends) (3mm to 10mm)

-Abdomen roughly between 1.5 cm (9/16 inch) and 1cm (6/16 inch) depending on previous thorax debate, what seems to be a visible black ovipositor half a centimeter long, two tan cerci about a mm and a half long each

-Relatively long, thin mouthparts greatly resembling an Orthopteran's

-Hind legs assumed equal length to hind wings, mid and forelimbs have a tibia and femur of equal length and are about 7mm long total--all legs are smooth rather than serrated

-Wings are opaque but with visible veins

-For clarification, after I got as close as possible to a wingless view the thorax and abdomen are assumed to be equal in length

-This Specific Individual isn’t really moving much except its (her?) antennae unless prompted and hasn’t opened its wings at all.

Conclusion: The insect it most closely resembles is a grasshopper, so it’s probably part of Orthopterida if not simply Orthoptera but I am still left with so many questions

Anyone know what this little guy is that hopped onto me at the bus stop? I wanna draw em but i wanna get it nice and accurate

(Southern uk)