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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Got another visit from the amazing twig-moth that is the pale prominent! 😁

Again I bring to you the most magnificent piece of twig. No, wait! It's a pale prominent moth again, my bad. Humour me though, because it's the best lil moth pal. Plus it's an easy mistake to make, and I will continue to make that joke, because this long, thin, irregularly shaped moth looks exactly like a broken bit of dried plant stem or twig. In both colour and shape I can imagine it fooling many an eagle eyed bird, lizard, or other predator. Or a human out looking for moths because I had to go get my good specs to fully appreciate it's magical-ness. Truly an utterfuckingly splendid disguise.

The same twig mimicking moth, sitting on a grey cardboard egg tray from my moth trap. The point here is that you don't have to go very far away for it to just look completely like a twig. Majestic camouflage, truly.

A top down view of the same twig mimicking moth. It seems somehow even more twiggy from this angle, so long and thin, with a mottled colour scheme that looks just like a bit of dried stem. Just amazing.

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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Also it's still furious grass veneer season, and this ferocious beast dropped by. (It's an absolutely livid barred grass veneer.) I love all these little guys, & it's good to see different species of tiny tetchy veneers show up at different times.

A tiny, beige and brown, wedge-shaped micromoth perched on the edge of my moth trap looking absolutely furious. I know, it's just the way it's dark wirey antennas sit above its round blue eyes that make them look like angry eyebrows. I just can't help anthropomorphising them, they seem so adorably livid.

A close up on the face of the tiny furious grass veneer moth from the previous image. It really does look tetchy, trust me on that.

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