buggirl: Thank you, Lintouse for your generous donation towards…
Thank you, Lintouse for your generous donation towards my research! Here is a Saturniid Moth since they are your favorite. Also, I LOVE that backpack you made! So awesome!
Rothschild Silk Moth, Mindo, Ecuador
Guess who’s going back to the Amazon?
That’s right! buggirl‘s going back to the Amazon. Yay!
In tangentially related news, I spent some quality time with this little lady in the garage yesterday:
She was perfectly amiable. I didn’t touch her, but I sat next to her for a while and at one point gave her a nudge with the corner of my phone to see how she’d react. She just shifted over a little.
At no point did I crush, squash, dismember, or mutilate her. When I checked back later she’d moved off into some dark recess.
It’s a little weird to navigate this boundary. Until recently I was a squash-all-black-widows-on-sight person, and this behavior of mine would have seemed thoroughly irrational. It still feels odd, and subject to an undercurrent of lingering arachnophobia.
Anyway. Baby steps.
Reposted from http://ift.tt/1pq8sYf.
Tags: insects, also, insects that anonsally will never see, spiders, arachnophobia.
