Thanks For The Tag :)

Thanks for the tag :)

Favourite colour: red (the colour of pomegranates and blood!! also has lots of possible meanings, like passion, anger, love, danger, etc)

Favourite animal: moths (I run a moth themed blog, so that's pretty easy to guess >:)

Favourite ice cream: probably chocolate, but idc so long as it's not tin roof or rum raisin

No pressure tags: @itzmylez @probablyapineapple @lights-at-night @pyrokuro @phonegilgi @bugmuncherr @thethingything (I can't list all of my mutuals but if I could I would lmao. Love yall <3

A person's favorite color, favorite animal, and favorite flavor of ice cream can say a lot about them when considering the answers as a whole. Some prime examples I've heard are:

~ Silver, Artic Wolf, and Mint Chocolate Chip.

~ Pink/Yellow, Putu Bird, and Cotton Candy.

~ Light Brown, Tree Kangaroo, and Rum Raisin.

~ Green, Pig, and Cookie Dough.

Mine are:

~ Burgundy, Fox, and Moose Tracks.

Tag some friends and get a sense of who they are! :)

@notable-bumblr @persistentchaos @enterfandomreference @valerietompson @paper-crowns-and-tiaras @ironxprince @acecuddle @angst-dealer @hey-you-i-just

Hello hello!!

Fun fact about caterpillars: they don't actually walk using their legs, they walk using their bodies.

In order to work properly, muscles need leverage. With humans, our skeleton provides this leverage. Our muscles are attached to our skeleton, and contract against it. However, caterpillars have no skeleton. So how do they move? The substrate the caterpillar is walking on provides the leverage. Its prolegs (those stubby looking legs) attach themselves to the substrate, enabling the muscles in its body to contract, moving the caterpillar along. The prolegs also contract, but only to move up and down, not forward.

These gifs from @caterpillar-gifs show that pretty well I think

I'm bored do any autistics out here wanna tell me fun facts about moths and butterflies

Oh yeah, they do that to warm up their flight muscles!!

I have never physically felt the fear of a bug until just now.

A lil' moth scuttled across my desk and onto my mouse as I was eating my oatmeal, so I picked it up and carried it outside in my closed hand. Lil guy tried so hard to fly out of my hand, and when I got outside and opened my hand, it just stayed on my index finger and it was shaking so much it was vibrating. I brought it to a tree in my yard and after about thirty seconds it flew off when I brought my hand off the tree.

I felt so bad for the funky lil' dude.

Looks like a blinded sphinx moth!!

cool moth i found, if anyone can id it that’d be cool

Jewel Caterpillar 💎

Nudibranchs of the forest!

These stunning little guys are from the Dalceridae family and native to Costa Rica, Mexico, and several Caribbean Islands. There is still little know about these caterpillars and their moth counterparts. They may look sizeable, but they are, in fact, very tiny, about half an inch in size. Jewel Caterpillars are gelatinous and underneath the glass like goop there are spikes coming out of the cuticle. Now, these spikes are easily detachable, and the goop acts as a defense to predators! It is still unclear if the goop is toxic, but if an ant or wasp attacks, it will get these goop stuck in its mandibles, which buys the caterpillar time to escape.

Unfortunately, though with their bright colors, impenetrable gelatinous body, and defense spikes, they also have a weak spot. That is their belly. It turns out parasitic maggots can get underneath them and drills through the unprotected belly, taking up residence. So, as the caterpillar eats and gains more weight, the invader is also being fed. Once big enough, the maggot consumes the inside of the caterpillar in quite a short period of time. This is no way for such a pretty little thing to go.

Jewel Caterpillar Moth - Acraga Coa

After undergoing pupation, oange, fuzzy and stylish moths emerge! The average wing span can be 1-3 cm and their season is year round. The females have a quick drying liquid that they spray on their eggs. This function of the liquid is still unknown, but theorized it is to help glue the eggs in place and provide protection from predators.

Oomf, don’t cry. 160,000 moth species in the world, ok?