kentish glory moths!! these are absolutely STUNNING with their colour scheme, which is my belowed brown-cinnamon-white mix, i love these guys!! in this video below from Bart Coppens on youtube (link in sources!) you can take a look at how clumsy and cute they are :)
It's a fairly scarce moth that lives in the northern hemisphere eurasia area, which feels mainly on birch and lives in moist marshlands. one of my favourite moths, send them my way or @ me if you find one! :D
My new little artbook is now available on my online shop!! 🪲🌱☀️
Floodmeadow Sketchbook 01 is a collection of the art I’ve done inspired by my time spent out on my local nature reserve here in Yorkshire, UK over the last two years. This is the landscape I grew up in so it means a lot to me.
A portion from each sale will be donated back to the reserve.
You can also find my riso print, other books and my leftover prints and stickers from comic con in my online shop!
NEWYEAR10 gives 10% off until the end of the 9th ✨🌱
Thank you for all the support, especially on some of my more recent posts! ❤️
I believe this is the peppered moth - Biston betularia - which many will remember from biology classes, where it was held up as an example of evolution in action from the all-black phase which became prevalent in sooty, industrial parts of britain.
It normally lies with its wings flat against a black and white, textured surface where it can be very hard to spot. The unusual pose here might indicate that this is a newly hatched moth that is still inflating and hardening its wings.
Eyed Hawk-moth (Smerinthus ocellata) caterpillar, in situ - with sallow food plant by Will Atkins
Via Flickr:
Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire. You can see where it's had a good old chew on the sallow leaves, not long before pupation.
not me and my friends driving by balmoral castle in scotland this morning making jokes about how funny it would be if the queen was there. meanwhile she literally was in there DYING i'm