#cecropia moth

[sapphicnunnery]

MOTHS

GUYS MY FRIEND RAISES MOTHS AND HER FIRST ONE OF THIS YEAR JUST EMERGED!!!!!!

They raise cecropia moths, which are native to our region! They’re super pretty!!! This first one is a female, so they’re releasing her. If they don’t, they’ll end up with hundreds of caterpillars. Surprisingly, even though she just emerged, she’s already mated and laid a couple of eggs, which they’re gonna keep and raise next year :) these moths only live a few days as adults because they, like all other members of the family Saturniidae, don’t have mouths!! This setup is designed to let males stay inside the mesh, and wild females can mate with them to help add to the wild population.

[blinkpen]

wake up babe new type of dragon just dropped

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Cecropia Moth

COURTESY OF CAROL ECKER

[pallanophblargh]

I was recently extremely blessed in being able to finally see one of my “bucket list bugs” as I’ve started calling them. (Not a real list, as I’m never one to be organized…)

But a friend alerted me to the presence of this big beauty and J gave me a leg up to take a closer photo with my measly phone camera and subpar photography skills. I found some eggs she had laid on the wall and I scooped them up in hopes I can look after them. She hung around with her admirers for a good half hour before deciding she’d lingered long enough and flew off into the literal sunset.

Cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia, largest moth species in North America. Bug haters, don’t interact!

[kierenrose]

Saw this beauty on my porch today!

[thegorgonist]

October 4th is Cecropia moth, my fave!

[lydiacreative]

Moths are magic in the night ✧

I'm ready for autumn please

[indoorscreamingvoice]

Some moths :)

[thethirdman8]

On my way home today I found this beautiful Giant Silk Moth or Robin Moth perched on the store front outside wall of my local package store, Willington Wine and Spirits.. Big - about the size of my fist.. Of course I had to look it up.. @thethirdman8 🦋

[swampwizards]

Moth party!

Polyphemus (right) and Cecropia (left)

[vintagewildlife]

Cecropia moth By: Unknown photographer From: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animal Life 1961

[teaglitch]

custom transfeminine cecropia moth owl barn nymph 🦋✨

[darklylucid]

So...I was walking down the back alleyway close to my work this morning when I happened to see something clinging to the brick wall behind a small strip mall, and when I got close enough to see what it was, my very first thought was, 

“What the FUCK is THAT?”

Since I have no cell phone, I had to run into work,  borrow a co-workers phone and run back in order to take a picture of it. 

Look. LOOK AT IT. 

That’s a whole-ass Pokemon! (Volcarona...)

Never in the forty years I have been alive and living in Ontario, Canada have I either seen or even know we had Moths this huge!

It’s wingspan was a bit wider than the span of my hand between my thumb and little finger (and that’s seven and a half inches as it is!)

One quick internet search later, and I can say with certainty that it was a  Cecropia Moth, the largest native Moth species in North America! 

Look at it...look at it’s FLUFFINESS! 😆

It was gently fanning it’s wings when I left, and I hope it found a better hiding spot than conspicuously clinging to a brick wall...

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Nature photography (1939)

Cecropia (male and female) · Cecropia moths on end of stick. Acadia National Park, Maine, March 1939 | src National Parks gallery view more on wordPress

Reflection of Pemetic Mt. in Eagle lake. Acadia National Park, Maine, June 1939 | src National Park gallery (NPG)

Kingfisher · Bird on stick. Acadia National Park, Maine, July 1939

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[pallanophblargh]

Wrangling the Children onto some fresh leaves. The Cecropia Kids are over 40 days old and still growing, and I’m starting to worry they won’t pupate in before I leave on vacation . Granted, I’m sure everything will be ok but it’s in my nature to worry over multi-legged invertebrate children. I just love larvae.

(Forgive the frass, I cleaned it out shortly after getting all the cats onto fresh food)

[onenicebugperday]

@synchlora submitted: im missing my summer bug job right now, so here's a lovely cecropia girl I raised earlier this year :D

OH BIG!!! She’s literally perfect wow....hope she lived a nice long moth life and made three million babies  :’)