#saturnia pavonia

[bowelfly]

Saturnia pavonia

[podartists]

Saturnia pavonia | Les Papillons dans la Nature (1934) | Paul-André Robert (1901-1977)

[starlight-prism]

remember the human heart

[deathdiet]

saturnia pavonia

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[ciameth]

Smaugust 4 - Draco saturnia

Last month I asked people to send me some of their favorite animals/plants/minerals. I'm now dragonizing the items on that list for Smaugust art prompts, attempting to draw one a day through the entire month.

This dragon is inspired by Saturnia pavonia, a moth of the British Isles. I went with a body plan inspired by dragons in European medieval art as homage to the moth's native range.

[teamsieben]

hi i heard you were normal about moths. what is the funkiest moth (open to interpretation)

I don't know a ton of moths yet (this is still a fairly new interest) but out of the ones I know... Saturnia pavonia, the small emperor moth. It has Human Eyes on it. It kinda freaked me out the first time I saw it. I love it.

[behehemoths]

Small emperor moth Saturnia pavonia - male

Found in moorlands across the Palearctic regions, the small emperor moth is the only saturniid to be found on the British Isles.

Image credit: Illuvis on Pixabay

[image ID: a moth with brown and white forewings and black and gold eyespot with red accents on the antemedial line. The hind wings are orange with black and on the submarginal and pink on the marginal. There are similar black and gold eyespots on the hind wings.]

[heracliteanfire]

The Emperor Moth, Saturnia pavonia; Thomas Dewell Scott, 1857.

Proof of a plate for H.T. Stainton, A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths, 1857. Wood-engraving printed on India laid paper.

via British Museum

[pod-nomerom-westb]

[theyoungwaldschrat]

Releasing some reared small emperor moths (Saturnia pavonia)

[lycomorpha]

Welp, I got one (1) day of mothing in, before the weather turned, and I had to pack away the trap bc high winds.

So instead of real moths from my garden, pls enjoy one of my favourite moths that I drew last year. After scanning it for that first pic, I drew in the background. It's in polychromos pencils and it's based on a female small emperor moth (Saturnia pavonia)

[mutant-distraction]

Johan van der Louw

Saturnia pavonia, Gelderland, The Netherlands 26-5-2022

[deepsea-worm]

I had the idea to draw a moth with eye spots like a sort of mask for a while 🦋 At first I thought of making it a painting, but in the end I can't resist drawing everything with the tiniest possible pen... It's a small emperor moth (saturnia pavonia).

[pogomcl]

Emperor Moth, Saturnia pavonia larvae Canon 7D EF 100 2.8 f/3.5 1/320 iso: 200 Prague, Czech Republic 9/1/2013

[cishetlessfashion]

Andro/masc utilitarian solarpunk earwig and moth therian demiromantic fashion with earth tones and no piercings for anon Rainbow earwig shirt Saturnia pavonia realistic moth patch Luna moth enamel pin Silver earwig pin Demiromantic flag beaded bracelet, anklet, or choker Flying earwig shirt Floral moth button up shirt Demiromantic flag enamel pin Leather fingerless gloves Vintage burgundy leather jacket

[velaraffricate]

ṭṣip busëmisti, xüṇ glutli sabaris na'isünasü eskitis. glutli rüwa ṭṣipsin fukxitis. tse zilsü, ṇibulxoŋ kaŋka omboopho ën doanhu'apo.

Moths were created when a star fell from the sky onto earth. The star shattered into a thousand moths. To this day, lights remind them of home.

A short comic about the creation myth of moths in irkan osla! Moths, especially Saturnia Pavonia moths, are closely associated with siilika, the deity of stars, hope, and spirituality. Some fun facts about the translation: In irkan osla, some nouns are inherently plural. This applies to almost all animals, including moths. So 'ṭṣip' means moths, to get the singular you have to add a suffix 'ṭṣipwa'. The same goes for stars, 'glut', here the singular 'glutli' is used. This culture uses a dozenal number system, so a "thousand/1000" actually translates to 1728 in decimal. Anyway, hope yall like it, this is probably one of my favourite things I've ever done with a conlang tbh :3

gloss under the readmore as always! also [heres] the post i made about the writing system/romanization.

moth-II.PL.NOM PASS-create-PST.3PL.II, when star-II.SG.NOM sky-II.SG.ABL earth-II.SG.ALL fall-PST.3SG.II. star-II.SG.NOM thousand moth-II.PL.ALL shatter-PST.3SG.II. this day-II.SG.ALL, lamp-III.PL.ERG 3PL.I.ABS home-III.SG.DAT of remind-NP.3PL.III.