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“Tiger moth”. Etching, aquatint, chine-colle. Series: “For the Love of Wild life” 2021
Green Tiger Moth (Chlorhoda thoracica), family Erebidae, Peru
photograph by Alejo Lopez
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.
Look what I found outside of my door!!!! A Tiger Moth!!!! 🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅
Green Tiger Moth (Chlorhoda thoracica), family Erebidae, Peru
photograph by Alejo Lopez
Trying to do the glossy glass crystal looking style again, I don’t know
Also, random question:
Has anyone remember Tiger Moth Insect Ninja comics? I used to read at least two of the comics many years ago, along with other obscure comics like:
- Invasion of the Gym Class Zombies/Secret of the Summer School Zombies
-Princess Candy: Marshmallow Mermaid
And
- a comic about two alien twin brothers going around space with a washing/dryer machine as a spaceship, and one of their adventures has to do with going to planet Pluto and it has something to do with ice cream or something (sadly don’t remember the name of the comic)
I’m just digging a random memory-lane rabbit hole at this point…