#museum mondays
Variable Cracker (Hamadryas feronia)
Slurping some banana juice.
Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) ♂
My heart melts every time I see one of my huge moths clean their antennae like a cat washing their face.
Common Parides (Parides iphidamas)
It’s really difficult to film at just the right moment but finally I got an emergence!
African Moon Moth (Argema mimosae) ♂
Finally got video of one with his tails still intact!
Common Morpho (Morpho peleides)
Honey water on your fingers and you become a butterfly magnet. Have some proboscis action.
African Moon Moth (Argema mimosae) ♀
I love when moths hold their 1st pair of legs like this.
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Common Morpho (Morpho peleides)
Morphos are blue internally and brown with eyespots externally but if you get light to pass through their wings, you get to see both sides simultaneously!
Malachite (Siproeta stelenes)
I dislike how Tumblr formats vertical videos by giving them these ugly black bars on the sides?? So I experimented in iMovie using a panning motion to force this once vertical video to become horizontal. I think that it looks pretty good?
Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) ♀
A shaky lady part 2.
Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus) ♂
One time, a visitor brought a random cocoon they found outside to the museum and I was lucky enough that it emerged on a day that I was in! This has been the only American species of Saturniid moth that I have interacted with so far.
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Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) ♀
A shaky lady.
All prepared and ready to pin onto a board.
Tarricina Longwing (Tithorea tarricina)
Ruby-Spotted Swallowtail (Papilio anchisiades)
Jazzy Leafwing (Hypna clytemnestra)
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