#pride month pride moth

[classyfruit]

🏳️‍🌈✨ HAPPY PRIDE MOTH! ✨🏳️‍🌈

Queer queen mothma'am feels so much pride for her colorful children.

Tis the season to show your colors, to celebrate how unique you are and how love connects us all. 🧡

Thank you for being you - stay true to yourself, stay safe and stay hydrated.

[paraedoxon]

me accidentally typing ‘pride moth’ instead of month…inspired

[clownsuu]

Since it’s pride month, I was wondering what Home sexuality! ( If you already said what it was. I’m so sorry for asking again )

For my Home? Tbh I mostly headcanon him as pan, maybe even demisexual/romantic as well since it fits with him-

also take some really really bad art blocked doodles of Emo Home LMAOO

[microecobus]

[paudrach]

and a Happy Pride Moth 2023 to you all! All moths, all together, like our community should be.

(This design and all the individual moths available in my S6)

[minteehell]

In honor of Fareeha coming out and Pride Month <3

Ladies and Lesbians..

Her.

[tsamired]

hapee pide moth

[goblinqat]

More pride moths!! If you want something specific lmk, trying to knock out as many as I can :]

Feel free to use em (with credit pls :> )

[libraryofmoths]

Moth of the Week

Madagascan Sunset Moth

Chrysiridia rhipheus (misspelled “ripheus”)

The Madagascan sunset moth is in the family Uraniidae. This species was first described in 1773 by Dru Drury who put it in the Papilio genus, a genus of butterflies. He though this because it looked like a swallowtail butterfly, and additionally the specimen he was given had a different species’s head with clubbed antennae (a defining characteristic of butterflies) attached to the body. Jacob Hübner corrected this mistake in 1823 and placed the moth in the genus Chrysiridia. I though this moth would be perfect to post in June for its rainbow colors.

Description The Madagascan sunset moth’s body are covered in black fur on the back and orange fur on the underside. The thorax is an iridescent blue or green and the legs and head are black with filiform antennae. The wings are iridescent red, blue, and green with the colors mixing for the full rainbow. Black patterning of spots and stripes are on all four wings with the forewings having a black edge. The hindwings themselves have a white fringe on the edge and six tails which are often broken off or damaged over time. The upper side of both wings are mostly black with a large patch by the body. Patterns on the wings can vary and some moths are asymmetrical. This can be caused by many things like temperature shock during growth.

The colors on this moth��s wings do not come from pigments, but instead are caused by the scattering of light from the wings’ scales.

Average wingspan in high altitudes: 7 cm (≈2.8 in)

Average wingspan in low altitudes: 9 cm (≈3.5 in)

On occasion a moth’s wingspan can be as large as 11 cm (≈4.3 in).

Diet and Habitat The larva feed on four types of plants from the Omphalea genus that grow only on Madagascar. These species are O. ankaranensis, O. palmata, O. occidentalis, and O. oppositifolia. The larva eat all parts of the plants from leaves, to stems, to flowers, to fruits, but they avoid the veins of the leave which have a toxic latex in them. Adult moths drink nectar and prefer white or whitish-yellow flowers especially from the Indian almond tree, tea plant, loquat, plants in the Eucalyptus genus, and common mango tree.

First believed to have come from China or Bengal, this moth is only found in Madagascar. They migrate over the island to different areas with their host plant and can be found all over the island except for the south west and extreme south where their host does not grow. This moth’s preferred habitats are deciduous forests and rain forest regions.

Mating These moths mate all year but have the highest populations in March to August and the lowest populations in October to December. The females lay their eggs late in the afternoon or at nightfall. The females will usually lay the eggs in the underside of the host plant’s leaves in groups but can on occasion lay them on top.

Average number of eggs laid in each group: 80 eggs

Predators The Omphalea genus the caterpillars feed on also attracts polistine wasps who prey on the larva. However, the caterpillars and adult moths are toxic because the Omphalea species contains polyhydroxy alkaloids, which the caterpillars gain by eating and retain as adult moths. The wings’ bring colors are a warning signal of this.

Fun Fact The Malagasy people believe the souls of the dead or of ancestors appears in the form of a lepidopteran. The Madagascan sunset moth is specifically called adriandolo or lolonandriana, from lolo for "spirit" or "butterfly" and andriana for "noble" or "king.”

Additionally, eating the silk from this moth is said to cause a euphoric high.

Another interesting fact is the Madagascan sunset moth is one of only two species in the Chrysiridia genus.

(Source: Wikipedia, Moth Identification, Bug Under Glass)

[notbynary]

HAPPY PRIDE MOTH

[ID: Colored pencil art of a rainbow moth, drawn in the colors of the original rainbow pride flag. End ID]

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[harvestmoth]

no one knows where she got it

[sohndesmondes]

In a alternative universe Robin works in a coffee shop and Nancy goes there every day to write her newspaper stuff with the excuse that "this coffee shop is the only one with decent coffee in the whole town" when actually all her friends know it's because she likes to look at Robin while Robin works in her two jobs (making coffee for people and making fun of Steve)

[cryptidm0ths]

some rinhime as a treat :]

[redwrencreative]

Day 12 of Pride Month is all about Polygender Pride, represented here by a Roseate Spoonbill and a wreath of Moth Orchids 🖤🩶🩷💛🩵

[paudrach]

Asexual and Aromantic moths to complete the set! I had so much fun with these and I have a new love for drawing moths now. I'll post them all together soon. (Available in my S6)

[thylacid]

happy pride month