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My first contribution to #YearOfTheMoth
White Witch (Thysania agrippina)

Merian documented this moth 300 years ago, but actually got some features wrong! Despite it being the WIDEST INSECT ON EARTH, we don't know its host plant or eggs, and only verified its larva last year! I updated her drawing!

And all the annoying folks i know pushing NFT's as "just exploring a new form of expression" never apologized for that shit

If you are ever programming something deals with time in the slightest bit, always run a Kathmandu test, and make sure that +5.75 UTC offset doesn't blow up whole parts of your code!

ahhh, gotcha, so maybe they are tucking day of for extra fabric!

I'm not sure, but did you see the ski jumpers are doing like the opposite? Where they are inflating their junk to somehow provide more lift in their suits?

A woman wearing a cardigan with oversized wing-like sleeves, it is patterned to look like a monarch butterfly

A woman wearing a cardigan with oversized wing-like sleeves, it is patterned to look like a luna moth

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Thysania agrippina (The White Witch). Top view: White and dark brown hues of mosaic design, left lower wing slightly torn. Pink eyes.

Time for #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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First one for February - Thysania agrippina (The White Witch). I really like the underside wings that is totally different in colour (dark iridescent blue; not shown). 💙 #moth #teamMoth mothing with @dinalab.bsky.social

Thysania agrippina (The White Witch). Top view: White and dark brown hues of mosaic design, left lower wing slightly torn. Pink eyes.

Time for #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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First one for February - Thysania agrippina (The White Witch). I really like the underside wings that is totally different in colour (dark iridescent blue; not shown). 💙 #moth #teamMoth

My first contribution to #YearOfTheMoth
White Witch (Thysania agrippina)

Merian documented this moth 300 years ago, but actually got some features wrong! Despite it being the WIDEST INSECT ON EARTH, we don't know its host plant or eggs, and only verified its larva last year! I updated her drawing!

New Mothbox DIY firmware is out!

Makes it a lot easier to customize, because you can change all the customization options in the boot partition of the Raspberry pi image!

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Anticarsia gemmatalis (aka Velvetbean Caterpillar)
#YearOfTheMoth

6 months of moths for 2026 Celebrate the Yer of the Moth by Creating Mothy Art every week from Febraury until Moth Week! 0. February 2 - The White Witch (Thysania agrippina) 1. February 9 - Bella Moth (Utetheisa ornatrix) *2. February 16 - Cryptoses choloepi (lives in sloth) 3. February 23 - Luna moth (Actias luna) 4. March 2 - Vampire moth (Calyptra thalictra) 5. March 9 - Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica 6. March 16 - Morgan’s sphinx moth (X. morganii) 7. March 23 - Death’s-head hawkmoth (Acherontia Atropos) 8. March 30 - Heterogynis penella 9. April 6 - The Nonconformist (Lithophane lamda) 10. April 13 - Water veneer (Acentria ephemerella) 11. April 20 - Monopis moth (Monopis laevigella) 12. April 27 - Astronomer Moth (Olethreutes astrologana) 13. May 4 - Police car moth (Gnophaela vermiculata) 14. May 11 - Discrete Chaperon (Cymbalophora pudica) 15. May 18 - Neighbor Moth (Haploa contigua) 16. May 25 - Green Marvel (Acronicta fallax) 17. June 1 - Four o'Clock Moth (Dysphania numana) 18. June 8 - Brahmin Moth, Indonesian owl moth (Brahmaea hearsyi) 19. June 15 - Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) 20. June 22 - Hornet moth (Sesia apiformis) 21. June 29 - Comet moth (Argema mittrei) 22. July 6 - Io moth (Automeris io) 23. July 13 - Rosy maple moth (Dryocampa rubicunda) 24. July 20 (Start of Moth Week) - Plutodes cyclaria 25. July 21 - Musical mandolin moth (Rileyiana fovea) 26. July 22 - the Somber Carpet (Disclisioprocta stellata) 27. July 23 - Agreeable Tiger Moth (Spilosoma congrua) 28. July 24 - the Dubious Tiger Moth (Spilosoma dubia) 29. July 25 - the Scorched Carpet (Ligdia adustata) 30. July 26 (End of Moth Week) - the Drinker (Euthrix potatoria)

Remember how I said it is YEAR OF THE MOTH!?

PL Weng put together an awesome list of Moths that you can celebrate each week from February until Moth Week! Think of it as a fun #SciArt Challenge!

Get ready to make this year Mothy!

#moth #teamMoth #YearOfTheMoth

The Scribbler Moth

They call me The Scribbler! Are you interested in teaming up with a criminal mastermind? Foiling the efforts of superheroes? Or maybe hanging out by porch lights? Then join me in my evil mothing ways, and together we will rule the night!
#NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #Insects #Bugs #Nature

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creepy awesome sea slime strikes again 🦐

nice!

people make mistakes every day, blondes, it’s our time to shine (while pretending to be confused all the time)

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

If you want to play along, all you have to do is make cool art themed about the #moth of the week! It starts off next week with the WHITE WITCH!

Create #poems, #games, #sculptures, #paintings, #proceduralart or whatever you want! Give it #YearOfTheMoth and we can help celebrate whatever you make!

e.g. "Oh hey, a lot of folks are starting to use community science instead of citizen science for these reasons..."

vs.

"If you think about it for even a minute!?"

I'm guessing it's likely the latter. I'm mostly just trying to convey that if your true goal is to start getting places to switch up their language, bringing them in more welcomely, rather than abruptly scolding them, could be a more effective strategy.

Like are these folks super intentionally meaning "ONLY CITIZENS" or are they using an outdated term that was first brought to these places by westerners, and then repoliced by those westerners?

oh i understand the difference in terms, it's more like, speaking as a white guy from the US, it's not always the best look to go around abruptly policing folks from the rest of the world.

I'm with your sentiment against the term Citizen science here, but this feels a bit aggressive, and perhaps not the best way to bring folks into the fold :)

Wow google really fired up the shithose to full blast on their projects

when Spock does the neck pinch, even on bad guys, he always catches them and sets them down very politely. letting this guy fully just drop, leaving Jim to try to awkwardly scramble to catch him, is Vulcan for "it is always morally right to punch Nazis"

Look, whether I find an agent or not, I have at least a dozen professional and friendly connections who know Bill Nye that I'm about to pester

And I'm going to try like hell to make my dream of Dr. Jey the Science They a reality

We need engaging, fun, education science media more than ever

Saw a bunch of vids talk about how commendable a job Tim Walz had done navigating the whole situation, his decorum, etc. Fuck all of that. Because Tim Walz is a politician looking to uphold the status quo when it is so obviously awful, fuck him. Fuck all of them. They will not save you!

Current Vacancies - British Antarctic Survey Check out the latest British Antarctic Survey jobs

Fancy Phill's Antarctic job?

Our carpentry roles will be advertised at the end of March, current planned date is 30 March.

⏰ Set your alarm clocks!
www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...

Happy retirement, Greg Bovino!

It’s always funny when palantir employees discover that they work at palantir