Moths Are Eldritch Beings - Tumblr Posts

Very!! It's likely a salt marsh moth, though it's hard to tell from the angle. At the very least it's an arctiid moth.

Fun fact!!

Some male lepidoptera, salt marsh moths included, have these sort of eldritch-looking structures inside them called hair pencils/coremata. When they're close to a female, they begin their courtship by inflating these with blood/haemolymph or air. The coremata release pheromones which attract females and repel males of the same species. Picture below the cut bc it's a bit disturbing

Expansion and retraction of coremata

Source: reddit

Inflated coremata

Source: bugguide

Glamourous.