literally like rosy maple moths but their wing pattern is SOOOOO much prettier. Look at those colours??? That strip of yellow looks so pretty too. Show this boy some love :)
These are part of the geometridae family, one of my personal favourites :)
Just your regular everyday wholesome family getting some snooze in after work. Just two dads taking care of their adopted daughter. Nothing to happily cry wholesome tears here :""""))))
Also, Habit, Kamal and Putunia in my style?? What??? I blame a certain partner of mine for inspiring me XD <3
antler moths!! They get their name form the beautiful white pattern on their hindwings which looks like, you guessed it, antlers!
Somewhat unrelated but is it just me that ADORES brown/reddish brown + white colour scheme stuff, especially these kinds of bone/yellowish white tints <3
And as alwas with moths we get amazing antennae :)
They are like little sun sprites, motes of joy and determination made animate. I decorated their outworld like a magical desert. Here you see their annex nest (not their main home just an outpost) and the geode and branch they explore. I feed them on the jade dish, they neatly pile trash in the upper right corner for me to pick up. (Dorymyrmex bureni, the light brown cone ant)
Poor girl she bit the paint brush I use to help them to move and can’t seem to let go. I tried to help her by cutting the bristles off. But, I think her sisters should be able to help so I returned her, still clutching the bristles to the colony.
It seemed like a brave thing to do in the moment. Bite the evil paint brush and defend the colony! But it has gone all wrong.
A short video of the little brown ant holding the bristles in her mandibles. I gently lower her on to a sheet of graph paper and she runs away still holding the bristles.
the other day i encountered my first millipede - i wish i had remembered that centipedes are the ones that bite so i could have Held that wonderful little critter! i am officially a millipede fan and advocate