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That fuckin picture of that guy at agraveyard holdin like, a cup or smt, with a mothman sized moth with him, both staring directly at the camera is somehow the funniest image but I haven’t been able to find it in months

I saved this post a while back to eventually identify the moth, but since it's already been I'D, I thought I'd show yall how pretty the Virginia Ctenucha is :)

Image credit: Babette Kis

I mean, look at this creature!!

Hi, sorry if this is a weird question, but I’ve been wondering about something for years, and I figure here’s as good a place to ask as any.

So, this was years and years ago, like mid-2010s probably. I was living in southern Ontario at the time, like an hour away from Toronto? And I saw this butterfly during recess at my school, while I was at the park.

Its wings were this gorgeous really dark brown, like roughly the same colour as Minecraft bats if you’ve played that game? And I remember its body was really brightly coloured, like bright red and cyan, possibly with a black head. I don’t remember any markings on the wings, but I was like 12 and it was dark brown so I might have just missed them. I don’t really remember the shape either, so it was probably a relatively generic butterfly wing shape? It was also probably around 3 to 6 cm, but don’t quote me on that, I’m just guessing since I recall it being pretty average size for a butterfly and that seems to be the usual range for Ontario butterflies.

Obviously it could’ve easily been a moth, but I’ve never found any butterflies or moths that fit the description I remember. I’m not even sure butterflies/moths with brightly-coloured bodies like that EXIST, honestly. Also not sure it was native to my area: I’ve never seen anything that looked like that before or since.

(If it helps, it was a suburban area, but one with a lot of wooded areas nearby? There was also this tiny reservoir lake not too far from the area. It was sometime between 10 AM and 1 PM when I saw it, probably around noon.)

Anyways, anybody have any idea what I might’ve seen? Because it’s kind of been haunting me for years.

The other day I found a little goth moth, all black, clinging to a wall along the road...

I picked it up, and discovered that (other than being extremely unwilling to wake up, eepy sleepy moth) it had a beautiful bright orange abdomen. Halloween deco moth.

I had to go to work, so I didn't have time to take a pic, and I just put it back down to sleep not far from where I picked it up, but it stayed in my mind so I decided to look it up

(Pictures not mine)

I found out it's a Phragmatobia luctifera/Epatolmis caesarea , of the Erebidae Arctiinae family. (Family with lots of cool moths and cool facts about the way moths can pick up or produce toxic or irritant chemicals, and also family which contains moths with piercing proboscis)

Unfortunately, I also found out it is considered endangered in almost all its habitats in Europe. If I knew it was such a rare find, I'd definitely would've spent a couple extra minutes taking a picture of it.

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I love the way this little baby tucked his antennas in! So cute<33