Another recent #invertebrate print for #InverteFest: my #linocut hummingbird clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe) seeking pollen from cherry blossoms! The olive-headed burgundy moth has transparent wings (though colour can be variable). It beats its wings rapidly to hover above flowers, like a hummingbird, meaning it is often confused with a hummingbird or bee.
I think I've finalized the design for the hawkmoth boss. What's a good name for her?
If anyone's wondering why the boss of a beehive is a moth, it's because hawkmoths impersonate queen bees to get free honey.
Her species was originally going to be a hybrid called a beehemoth, but that was before I learned there really were moths that look like bees, but I think that still works as a title.
It’s National Moth Week, July 22 -30, to celebrate the beauty, lifecycles & habitat of moths, so I’m reposting my eclipse of moths (the delightful term of venery for a group of moths).
This hand-printed lino block print shows 5 of the noctural moths of Ontario in front of the moon at a lunar eclipse:…
The Crepuscular #hawkmoth (Nephele hespera), is well-named - olive-green, with two stark white speckles on the wings, this particular individual was nearly invisible in a little strip of scrub-jungle adjoining #Nagaon beach, in #Maharashtra state, Western #india.
Large, beautiful #moths with powerful flights, Hawkmoths are important to us - #pollinators, they make #food for us even as they feed off a variety of wild and cultivated #flora.