Found This Pretty Little Thing A While Ago

Found this pretty little thing a while ago

Any idea what it is?

Saw this and immediately knew it would be a sphingidae moth/sphinx moth!!

This here is a blinded sphinx. They sometimes expose their eyespots, which look like this:

And the reason they're called a blinded sphinx is because their eyespots have no pupil.

Super cool :)

(credits to insectidentification.org for that info bc while I didn't directly quote their website and I'm sure the information isn't exclusively 'theirs', there was a very strongly worded footnote abt plagiarism and i am afraid they will hunt me down)

Unfurled Chinese Luna Moth Shows Me the Stars

Here's my most recent self portrait! It's where my username comes from. I love moths and when I draw them, I try to depict them as my emotions and feelings. In this drawing, I am feeling hopeless but there is a large Chinese Luna Moth that lands on my face and points me to look up at the sparking night sky. Its tails represent tears. The dark clouds are how I usually feel but the stars and the moon are some sort of hope and happiness.

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@cassowariess dw it's not too late! It can be chrysalis all year round if u want it to be :)

Merry Chrysalis!! (to those who celebrate)

Image source: PetaPixel

Happy holidays to everyone! Whether you're celebrating Christmas or not, I wish you a wonderful time filled with joy and festivities. Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season to the fullest <3

— Moth~🏷

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Name of animal: Pikachu moth

(Mazuca strigicincta)

Conservation Status: Not extinct

Location: Nigeria and Ghana down to northern Namibia and Mozambique

Lifespan: couldn’t find the lifespan

Size: Wingspan measures just 1.25 inches

Fun Fact: The common name, Pikachu moth, comes from the Pokémon, Pikachu!

Please someone send me an ask with a moth to id or smth i would love that

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?