Bluesky Feed - Lunarli's Lepidoptera

Lunarli ✶ Art @lunarliart.bsky.social · 5 months ago

More of my gorgeous boy! #lunarlilepidoptera #moth #moths #lepidoptera #cecropia #cecropiamoth #silkmoth #hyalophoracecropia #bugs #insects #unusualpets

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Lunarli ✶ Art @lunarliart.bsky.social · 5 months ago

My cecropia moths have been emerging the past few days!! I'm sooo excited they are GORGEOUS! #silkmoth #moth #bugs #insects #lepidoptera #lunarlilepidoptera #cecropia #cecropiamoth #hyalophoracecropia

Close up photo of a male cecropia moth, scientic name hyalophora cecropia. He is resting on my fingertips. His back is a gorgeous, deep orange-red, similar in color to the maple leaves they feed off of. There is a prominent white marking behind his head. His abdomen is striped with the same deep red-orange, white, and a little bit of black. He has beefy maple-red legs. He has fluffy black antenna and a fluffy body, and super fluffy "shoulders." His large wings fan feom deep orange, to thin black and white stripes, to deep brown, then stripes of orange, white, and grey. He has crescent shaped eye spots on his wings.

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Lunarli ✶ Art @lunarliart.bsky.social · about 1 year ago

This is such a niche tip/trick but if you keep any kind of silk moth, keep the habitat zippers closed in the middle instead of the top or bottom end. Why? For the reason one of my guys is doing right now: deciding to cocoon on the end of the zipper lmao #lunarlilepidoptera #caterpillar #cecropia

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Lunarli ✶ Art @lunarliart.bsky.social · about 1 year ago

He is so big now!! #cecropia #moth #caterpillar #invertebrate #invert #bugs #insects #unusualpets #petinsect #lepidoptera #lunarlilepidoptera

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Lunarli ✶ Art @lunarliart.bsky.social · about 1 year ago

If u turn up the volume, you can hear his little munching noises. #caterpillar #bugs #insects #petbug #unusualpets #lepidoptera #cecropia #mothcaterpillar #moth #lunarlilepidoptera

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Lunarli ✶ Art @lunarliart.bsky.social · over 1 year ago

My polyphemus caterpillars hatched! They're about 4-5 days old and smaller than my pinky nail right now. #lunarlilepidoptera #caterpillars #invertebrates #polyphemusmoth #lepidoptera #bugs

Tiny, light green polyphemus caterpillar on a brown silicone mat eating a maple leaf.

Tiny, light green polyphemus caterpillar with a light brown face crawling on a maple leaf.

Tiny, light green polyphemus caterpillar with a light brown face crawling on the underside of a maple leaf.

Tiny, light green polyphemus caterpillar crawling on a maple stem to get to the leaves.

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Lunarli ✶ Art @lunarliart.bsky.social · over 1 year ago

My most precious boy who eclosed a few days ago!! Seriously can't believe how cute he is, might be the cutest luna moth I've ever raised 🥺 #lunamoth #lepidoptera #moths #northamericanlunamoth #insects #lunarlilepidoptera #moonmoth

A bright green male north american luna moth rests in my hand with his wings in the downward relaxed position.

North Ameican luna moth rests on my hand, with winds getting ready for flight. He has long and thin wing tails.

Super close up shot of a male north american luna moth clinging to my finger. He has super fluffy mustard yellow antenna. His back and abdomen are also very fluffy. His burgundy legs are clinging to finger. He almost looks like he's burying his face shyly against my finger. He has large black eyes and the way the light is reflecting off them makes look like big cute anime eyes. The part of his face between his eyes is buttery yellow. The rest of his body is a creamy white. You can see the veins at the top of his wings this close up.

Male North American luna moth inside his habitat clinging to the clear wall, looking like a cryptid becyae the shot is from outside the habitat showing the underside of his white belly with his burgundy legs clinging to the clear wall.

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Lunarli ✶ Art @lunarliart.bsky.social · about 2 years ago

Hey bsky moth enthusiasts, remember a few weeks ago when I posted my biggest female & biggest male luna moths I've ever had? Well on the opposite end of the spectrum, meet the tiniest female luna moth I've had! Emerged a few days ago. #lunarlilepidoptera #lepidoptera #moths #lunamoth #bugs #insects

A very small female luna moth in a back three quarter view. You can see some of her white fluffy abdomen she has bright green wings raised up and IA desgjnf on my finger. Her body is smaller than my fingertip.

The back of a small female luna moth resting on my fingers. Her wing tails do not when reach to the middle knuckle of my middle finger.

A small female luna moth from a front three quarter view. Her body is smaller than my fingertip all 6 of her burgundy legs are visible.

A close up front three quarter view of a tiny luna moth. Her burgundy forelegs are raised up slightly near her face. She has large black eyes and skinny mustard yellow antennae. There is a mustard yellow patch of fluffy scales between her eyes. You can see underside of her fluffybwhire abdomen and some white fluff under her bright/light green wings.

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Lunarli ✶ Art @lunarliart.bsky.social · about 2 years ago

Had a real big male luna moth emerge last night! Male lunas are generally noticeably smaller than females, but this guy is almost as big as the huge lady I posted the other day. #lunarlilepidoptera #lunamoth #moth #insects #bugs #lepidoptera

A medium-large sized male north American luna moth rests on the back of of the index and middle finger of a peachy-white hand.

A three-quarter view close up of a male luna moth resting a peachy white index finger. He is facing left and his front legs are pulled in close to his body.

A front on close up view of a male north American luna moth. He has burgundy legs and a white fluffy abdomen. The space between his large black eyes is buttery yellow his yellow antenna are thick and fluffy and the individual strand are visible. You can see the pale underside of part of his green wings which has a burgundy outline on the top edge. He has large black eyes and his front legs are close together with the toes touching.

A mid-range three-quarter view of a male north American luna moth resting on a peachy white index finger. The eye spots on the underside of the upper and lower viewer-right wings are visible, as is the eyespot on the upper viewer left wing. He has thick fluffy yellow antenna, and his face is partially buried in his burgundy front legs. The two back legs on his viewer right side are visible, as is the middle leg on the viewer left side because he has it pulled up near his front leg.

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Lunarli ✶ Art @lunarliart.bsky.social · about 2 years ago

This luna moth emerged last night, and she's definitely the biggest one I've ever raised! #moths #insects #lunamoth #moonmoth #bugs #lepidoptera

A large female north American luna moth rests on a black mesh label above a smaller luna moth.

A female north American luna moth rests on my middle finger. She has a very large, eound abdomen, which is about as wide as my finger. Her head is turning towards the camera. She has large black eyes and the space between here eyes is a buttery yellow. Her legs are dark burgundy. The fluffy scales on the outer edge of her head, ans well as her abdomen, are white. The picture is close up enough that each individual horizontal strands coming off the vertical center of the antenna are visible. The antenna are buttery yellow.

A large, female, north American luna moth in a resting position on a hand. The picture shows a full back view of her bright green wings in a resting position. The eye spots on both the top and bottom wings are visible. She is angled with her antenna towards the middle left of the frame, and her wing tails towards the upper right corner of the frame.

A large female north American luna moth rests on the finger of a hand which is hollering hee up. Her wings are in a three-quarters back view. Her two front legs are extended above her head grabbing my fingertip.

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