I got up at 6am to do the moth trap and have all my flappy friends released and safely hidden under leaves or logs when the rain arrived.
& Friends, it was worth it. Behold the antennas on this male spongey moth. BEHOLD THEM!!
May your weekend be as fantastic as this moth's antennas.
This moth is considered a pest reportable to forestry services in some countries/regions. Luckily it's not a problem in my area, and this majestic floof flew on about its day.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Some beautiful recent moth-trap visitors 🦋💖 If you love these fluffy moth friends and are lucky enough to have a garden, please leave some weedy areas & long grass for them to eat, & dead leaves/foliage for them to hide in. Thank you from the Moth Promotional Board 🦋✨
1 & 2. Yellow shell 💛🐚
3 & 4. Spongey moth 🧽🦋
5 & 6. Orange swift 🍊💨 - look at its fluffy legs?!!
7 & 8. Common wainscot 🪵🧱
9. FURIOUS common grass veneer 😡🌾
10. Equally FURIOUS checkered grass veneer 😡🏁
[Just to add again: spongey moths are not considered a pest reportable to forestry services in my area of the UK. So this majestic floof was released to go about its day.]
she’s cute and amazing and most of all floofy. she’s also a pretty large floof, here’s a better picture
see? literally round. that’s how floofy she is. so now you know how floofy and what color my amazing cute catto is, i’ll show you what she’s done to the carpet in the hallway outside my room.
that dark patch against the wall? that’s her floof shadow. yes, she literally so floofy that because she sleeps there often, her floof has congregated on the floor and left a mark. she a FLOOFY shadowfloof.
appreciate the cute floofy amazing shadowfloof, guys.
(or else she’d teleport to you and attac with her sharp bits)