Sometimes when I’m birdwatching
Monday, November 26th, 2018White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)Foothill Road,…
Tuesday, October 30th, 2018White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
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Sometimes when I’m birdwatching
Saturday, October 27th, 2018Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna) and Honey Bee (Apis…
Saturday, October 27th, 2018Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna) and Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Gobernador Canyon Road, 2018-10-26
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debunkshy: QueenPedernales Falls SP, TX20 May 2018
Friday, October 19th, 2018Queen
Pedernales Falls SP, TX
20 May 2018
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nanonaturalist: Inktober: Day 3Day 3 Prompt: Aquatic. Model is this Mayfly nymph from Bastrop…
Thursday, October 4th, 2018Inktober: Day 3
Day 3 Prompt: Aquatic.
Model is this Mayfly nymph from Bastrop County, TX last spring [iNat link]
From @six-legs-and-more’s list
October 4, 2018 (liar!)
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ostdrossel: Rainy days, weird weather, fall is here.
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018Rainy days, weird weather, fall is here.
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lies: Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness Every year…
Monday, October 1st, 2018lies:
Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness
Every year we have been
witness to it: how the
world descends
into a rich mash, in order that
it may resume.
And therefore
who would cry outto the petals on the ground
to stay,
knowing, as we must,
how the vivacity of what was is marriedto the vitality of what will be?
I don’t say
it’s easy, but
what else will doif the love one claims to have for the world
be true?
So let us go onthough the sun be swinging east,
and the ponds be cold and black,
and the sweets of the year be doomed.— Mary Oliver, from A Thousand Mornings
Photo by Kelly Gardner, Mississippi valley mayfly emergence, July 20, 2014.
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dendroica:Summer Azure, Celastrina neglecta (by me)
Thursday, September 20th, 2018Summer Azure, Celastrina neglecta (by me)
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90377: Azuré by Marc Andreu
Monday, September 10th, 201890377: Running Free by Marc Andreu
Friday, September 7th, 2018perpetuallytransient: Rabbitbrush Leaf Beetle (Trirhabda…
Friday, September 7th, 2018Rabbitbrush Leaf Beetle (Trirhabda nitidicollis)
These look very similar to the Coyote Brush Leaf Beetles (Trirhabda flavolimbata) that I see a lot around here.
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90377: Bend under the weight by Marc Andreu
Thursday, September 6th, 2018emerald-of-the-eight:A lovely green hairstreak butterfly…
Monday, July 9th, 2018A lovely green hairstreak butterfly [Callophrys rubi] found in Castle Point Borough, England, by photographer
Paul Scott. Fun fact: the genus Callophrys is Greek for “beautiful eyebrows”.
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Sometimes when I’m birdwatching… Some clicking around on…
Monday, June 25th, 2018Sometimes when I’m birdwatching…
Some clicking around on Bugguide.net leads me to think this is Ctenucha brunnea, a species of tiger moth. A bunch of them were fluttering next to the Baron Ranch Trail yesterday.
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Sometimes when I’m birdwatching
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018Sometimes when I’m birdwatching
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emerald-of-the-eight:White peacock butterfly specimens [Anartia…
Saturday, June 9th, 2018White peacock butterfly specimens [Anartia jatrophae] photographed on the Anhinga Trail of Everglades National Park, Florida, by
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dendroica: Island marble butterfly (via USFWS – Pacific…
Saturday, June 2nd, 2018Island marble butterfly (via USFWS – Pacific Region)
Photo credit: Karen Reagan/USFWS
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nanonaturalist: ms-demeanor: the-entire-furry-fandom: rockbusted: the-entire-furry-fandom: if…
Thursday, May 24th, 2018if coyotes are just indie wolves and wolves are just bass boosted dogs what the fuck are moths to butterflies
ugly
please be nice to moths im begging you
YOU RANG?!?!
Here’s the thing:
Taxonomy is tricky. Moths and butterflies make up the insect order Lepidoptera. But… just like technically wolves and coyotes are already dogs (canids = dogs-ish I guess?), butterflies are just a type of moth. A very, very small group of insects in a gigantic, humungous, incomprehensibly more diverse order of insects. Allow me to demonstrate.
POP QUIZ! QUICK! FIND THE MOTH!
Got it? Good. Here’s the answer key (NO PEEKING BEFORE SPOTTING IT YOURSELF!).
From Left to right:
TOP: Painted Lichen Moth, Moonseed Moth, Beautiful Tiger (moth), Grote’s Buckmoth (endangered)
BOTTOM: Eubaphe unicolor (moth), Eight-spotted Forester (moth), Ailanthus Webworm Moth, Chickweed Geometer MothWait… ALL OF THEM ARE MOTHS? Of course they are. There are so few butterflies in the giant sea of moths, it’s amazing you even notice them!
Okay, okay fine. That one was tricky (or was it?). Here’s another.
AGAIN! QUICK! FIND THE MOTH!
Easier this time, right? Let’s see how you did! (NO CHEATING)
From Left to Right:
TOP: Checkered Skipper, Soldier Pansy, Funereal Duskywing, Dotted Checkerspot (endangered)
BOTTOM: Texas Powdered Skipper, Tawny Emperor, Reakirt’s Blue, Fatal MetalmarkWait… so which one is the moth? NONE OF THEM THESE ARE BUTTERFLIES. “What do you mean these are butterflies, they are boring?!” Shut up I love them. “But moths are supposed to be the boring ones!” Shut up moths are cooler than a T-rex with a mohawk riding a skateboard.
Moths are furry; Moths are smooth
Left: Southern Flannel Moth; Right: Carmenta ithacae (glass wing moths)- mating pair
Moths are large; Moths are small
Left: Cecropia Moth; Right: Banded Scythris Moth
Moths are Air; Moths are Water
Left: Eggplant Leafroller Moth, caterpillars live on plants; Right: Jalisco Petrophila Moth, caterpillars are aquatic and grow up in freshwater and the adult female moths will swim into the water to lay her eggs GUYS SHE IS A MOTH!!!!!! Also: they are jumping spider mimics! Look!
Moths are Elegant; Moths are Strange
Left: Wilson’s Wood-nymph Moth; Right: Dejongia californicus Plume Moth
Moths are Perfect; I Love Them
Left: Virginia Creeper Sphinx Moth; Right: Harrisina coracina
Composed May 24, 2018
All photos are mine and all but two were taken in Texas. Soldier Pansy and Beautiful Tiger were seen in Malawi.
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