Insect moth
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Long exposure of moths circling some floodlights. The long exposure has captured the light trails of the moths.
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A long exposure capturing the trails of moths as they circle around some floodlights
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Moth on the wall. My bathroom, London, UK. Iceland / Belgium / Italy / France / Hungary / Spain / Sri Lanka / USA / London / Portraits / Other This image has not been doctored. The moth was this colour. / Aside from some work with the levels and contrast.
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So cute – can you see him smiling? Featured in Photography 101
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I was in a hurry one afternoon, and on my way out to run some errands, opened up my front door, and found this unusual looking moth on the door frame. I started to keep going, then something made me stop, grab my camera and take a few pictures of it… I’m glad I did, as I discovered later after searching online, that this Luna Moth is quite rare to see one during the day, and they only live about a week, and are about as wide across as our hand….
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This was taken in December 2007 in Port St Johns in South Africa. It was one of the biggest and most beautiful moths I had ever seen.
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The Champion Moth is actually a butterfly. It’s a common misconception even among lepidopterists who can often be found lepidopting away in ignorance of this very pertinent fact. I started with the idea of opaque butterfly wings. Then I saw a pattern emerging in my work, a bad thing. And I should where it’s convenient always take things one step further with every project, so I had a vacancy for something new. It was then a case of figuring out what is the opposite of what one would expect. I was reading about how sparkplugs work and it was interesting stuff. Why they are the shape they are etc. Very interesting to me anyway. And butterflies could be shaped like sparkplugs with wings, that was credible enough for me. Then there was some minor photoshopping just to bring out the colours that were in the scan already. I don’t know how they get in there but I’m happy enough to use them because they’re an analog effect. I’d like to thank my always-obliging hacksaw blade who did a fantastic job teaming up with a piece of string to make a curved ruler sort of thing. When I was coming to the end of the drawing phase I was reminded of one of my favourite quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams: / It was a large mattress, and probably one of quite high quality. Very few things actually get manufactured these days, because in an infinitely large Universe such as, for instance, the one in which we live, most things one could possibly imagine, and a lot of things one would rather not, grow somewhere. A forest was discovered recently in which most of the trees grew ratchet screwdrivers as fruit. The life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruit it quite interesting. Once picked it needs a dark dusty drawer in which it can lie undisturbed for years. Then one night it suddenly hatches, discards its outer skin which crumbles into dust, and emerges as a totally unidentifiable little metal object with flanges at both ends and a sort of ridge and a sort of hole for a screw. This, when found, will get thrown away. No one knows what it is supposed to gain from this. Nature, in her infinite wisdom, is presumably working on it. / No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures which live quiet private lives in the marshes of Squornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seem to mind and all of them are called Zem. Bearpaw (a very nice person) wrote this incredible bit about it. / The moth/butterfly represents evolving, the spark plug represents not letting the spark within die, the flower represents a persons’ sense of fragility/purity. / Thanks Bearpaw. Add theyellowfury to your watchlist Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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This Sulpher gets intoxicated daily from the nectar of this flower late afternoon, Like clock work… It’s Happy Hour time… Please view details on the the larger screen view.. Thanks so much for cking this out~! Panasonic Fz-30- Close up-Macro settings / Spring 2008 Ct.
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She is such a tease.
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This is a closeup of the face of a Spiny Oakworm Moth … It is hanging onto the top seeding parts of a blade of grass in my front yard. Classification / Kingdom: Animalia / Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Lepidoptera / Superfamily: Bombycoidea / Family: Saturniidae / Subfamily: Ceratocampinae / Genus: Anisota / Species: Anisota stigma Wing span: 4 – 7 cm (1 9/16 – 2 3/4 inches) / Range: Southeastern Canada; southern New England west to Minnesota, south to central Florida, the Gulf Coast, and central Texas Location: Pierce County, Georgia – USA PHOTO UNTOUCHED Camera Info: / Fuji Finepix s700 / Shutter: 1/119 / Aperture: F/3.5 / Focal Length: 30 mm / ISO: 64 FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING GROUPS: / Super Macro Photography
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A lovely butterfly resting on a tree trunk. / INFO FOR SOLD!: / Sold in Matted Prints & Cards, here on RB, by mystery buyers.
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Top Ten in Color Me A Rainbow’s “Best of Featured Pink Works” April 2, 2009. / Winner of the “Breaking the Rules II: Depth of Field” Challenge in Photography 101 and Featured in the group, March 30, 2009. / Featured in Color Me A Rainbow March 26, 2009. / Featured in # 1 Artists of Redbubble February 19, 2009. / Featured in Macro Photography February 19, 2009. / Featured in Dimensions February 17, 2009.* Another one of my shy garden guests from last summer. I think one of the things I like about this one is it sort of gives a bug’s eye view of the world … their little world!!! Image taken on August 15, 2008 with the Nikon D40x, using the Nikon 60mm macro lens. Shutter Speed 1/800, aperture f/7.1, exposure -.33 and iso 200. Slightly cropping to bring the butterfly into the sweet spot.
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2009-03-22Date uploaded / 1805Views Now I’ve lived in Florida for oh 5 nearly 6 years now and have never come across such a gorgeous moth. This moth is 4.5 in width, quite large species. Here is my original photo taken this morning of this stunning moth. He/she is still sitting on the fence and quiet content. I had 4 dogs over playing and running back in forth, and children running around yelling. All the while it wasnt frighten off! We were able to touch it gently, open its wings, pet its head and belly and it seemed happy enough to indulge our curiosity. But something tells me this creature came for a reason, so of course i did my research and learned about the spirit animal Butterfly/Moth! It appears to be precisely on point too. So I returned and thanked the creature and offered my habititat on any occassion and welcomed its presence. Personally I hope it visits daily as it really brighten my day and reminded me life is fleeting and beauty even so small is worth stopping and taking notice. For more educational information go here to learn more about these LUNA MOTHS. Note I read this too: / About luna moth life cycle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atOSro3_W7c also read an article that said this: Relationship to Humans: People rarely see Luna Moths, mostly because they fly late at night. It is a treat to see one, because they are very beautiful insects. Humans have caused Luna Moths to become endangered by pollution and loss of habitat. Luna Moth caterpillars do not do much damage to trees. Guess we were really blessed to see one, sad thing …they only live 1 week! Image copyright © 2009 Lisa C. Weber. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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In general, the Painted Lady is a large butterfly (wing span 5-9 cm (2 – 2 7/8 in)) identified by the black and white corners of its mainly deep orange, black-spotted wings. It has 5 white spots in the black forewing tips and while the orange areas may be pale here and there, there are no clean white dots in them. The hindwings carry 4 small submarginal eyespots on dorsal and ventral sides. Those on the dorsal side are black, but in the summer morph sometimes small blue pupils are present in some. Nikon D80 – Sigma 70-300 APO DG at f/8 Featured in the # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE group JUNE 2009. / Featured in the Just Butterflies group JULY 2009.
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Up until this Spring I had only seen a clearwing hummingbird moth once. Much to my delight this season, however, I am spotting 2 variations on a regular basis on my property. The other one has yellow bumble bee stripes on its back and was scooting around these flowers at the same time this one was. Being a perfectionist It is still my goal to get an awesome side profile shot. I have a few profile shots but am not sure I have the ‘one’ yet :) It has proven quite a challenge to photograph these little guys as their wings beat just as fast as a hummingbird and they do NOT land and stay still. Photo taken June 6, 2009 on my property in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Camera Details / Canon Rebel EOS XTi and Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 macro lens. SS 1/1600, AP mode, f/4, ISO 200 / / Beautiful Bugs / ADD RENEE TO YOUR WATCHLIST
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Butterfly Silver-studded Blue (Plebejus argus) / / (2009.JUN.22) / Eastern Nevada, USA Featured on / Vibration in Art and Verse / (2009.NOV.27) / The Beauty Of Nature / (2009.NOV.18) / Live, Love, Dream / (2009.NOV.17) RedBubble Album: Small Blessings* Canon 350D EOS / Tamron 55-200mm Corel PhotoImpact x3
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Based off of my artwork “the Mosquito”, this is one of my most popularly selling t-shirt designs. Original artwork here
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My cat found this creature on the paito, a hot dog-sized caterpillar of the Regal Moth. He is absolutely harmless but his horns and his colors are pretty impressive. I think he had fallen out of his Hickory tree and was looking for leaf litter to pupate in. Taken in Inverness, Florida
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What a surprise i had today.here in Summit County, Colorado. While photoing finches on thistle flowers this small whirring insect came into view. I thought at first it was a hummingbird as its wings were moving at lightning speed but soon I saw that it was not. I took a lot of shots without having time to adjust any settings on my camera as i was afraid it would leave. Since coming inside to my PC I was able to research it and discovered what it is. Below a bit of information. As soon as the sun sets during the warm part of the year from much of southern Canada down to Central America, large White-lined Sphinx (Hyles lineata) moths will emerge, and like nocturnal hummingbirds, these amazing fliers can be seen zooming around the garden and hovering before flowers as they sip nectar. Occasionally, these hummingbird-like moths can even be seen during the daytime, especially late in the season. These fast-flying moths are difficult to photograph in flight unless they are hovering before flowers and the light is good, but later in the evening, White-lined Sphinx moths can often be found resting near outside lights where they are much easier to observe and photograph. Often mistaken for a hummingbird, the White Lined Sphinx Moth is about 2 to 2 1/2 inches in length. It is extremely beautiful and its wings make a purring, or humming sound as the insect moves, using the same quick hover-and-dart technique that a hummingbird has! Canon 40D / Lens 70-300mm
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This wasp has just started building a nest a bachelor’s pad for now.. 5D mk2 IS0 400 f/16 1/80 sec 65 MPE MAcro 3.5- 4X Glenwood, Australia
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Irodori watercolours – my new fav choice of watercolour brand. They are a touch chalky and this makes them brilliant to remove and the colours are so rich – it’s wonderful. Painted on Waterford 400gsm (yep – it’s practically like cardboard and rarely warps) I am so honoured to add this wonderful poem by Linaji / Colors and Patterns and Moths And he flew into a pallet of his own doing / Much like the heated lights glaring / Singeing the well being of this winged creature / For safety he chose instead becoming saturated / With his patterns of choice he was beautiful like that / it did not matter if he might die from the toxins / nor did it matter that the colors seemed wasted on his / winged, chained same old ‘thing’ pattern they both at the moment of immersion / color to wing creating the pattern / seemed / Glorious. Is it not enough for a moment to be just that? / Is not a lifetime always leading up to a point of / contact somehow, someway / Now, whereby / color to body / patterns and death This moth flies his own brand of freedom Linaji 2009
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Over 115.000 views on Flickr and over 30.000 on Zenfolio The Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) is a large saturniid moth found in the tropical and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia, southern China, common across the Malay archipelago, Thailand to Indonesia. In India, Atlas moths are cultivated for their silk in a non-commercial capacity; unlike that produced by the related Silkworm moth (Bombyx mori), Atlas moth silk is secreted as broken strands. This brown, wool-like silk is thought to have greater durability and is known as "fagara." Atlas moth cocoons have been employed as purses in Taiwan. / Atlas moths are considered to be the largest moths in the world in terms of total wing surface area (upwards of c. 400 square cm or 65 square inches). Their wingspans are also amongst the largest, from 25-30 cm (10-12 inches). Females are appreciably larger and heavier. (The largest lepidopteran in terms of wingspan is thought to be the White Witch Thysania agrippina.) Atlas moths are said to be named after either the Titan of Greek mythology, or their map-like wing patterns. In Hong Kong the Cantonese name translates as "snake’s head moth", referring to apical extension of the forewing, which bears a passing resemblance to a snake’s head. / Atlas moths are predominantly tawny to maroon in colour with roughly triangular, diaphanous "eyes" on both forewing and hindwing, bordered in black. The purpose of these dramatic, gossamer portals is not clear, but they are thought to play a role in predator avoidance. Their bodies are hairy and disproportionately small compared to their wings. Patterns and colouration vary among the many described subspecies. Male Atlas moths are distinguished from females by their smaller size, more tapered wings, and larger, bushier antennae. Neither sex possess fully-formed mouthparts and therefore do not feed; they survive entirely on larval fat reserves throughout their 5-7 days adult life. / Females are sexually passive, releasing powerful pheromones which males detect and home in on with the help of chemoreceptors located on their large feathery antennae. Males may thus be attracted from several kilometres downwind. Atlas moths are unsteady fliers and the female does not stray far from the location of her discarded chrysalis: she seeks a perch where the air currents will best carry her pheromones. / Once mated the female lays a number of spherical eggs 2.5 mm in diameter on the undersides of leaves. Dusty-green caterpillars hatch after about two weeks and feed voraciously on the foliage of certain citrus and other evergreen trees. The caterpillars are adorned with fleshy spines along their backs which are covered in a waxy white substance. After reaching a length of about 115 mm (4.5 inches), the caterpillars pupate within papery chrysalids redolent of desiccated leaves. The adult moths emerge after about four weeks.
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This piece is not finished, it’s on a very large wood panel. The back will have hawk-moths pulling strands of her locks, with a subtle background of a sunset. Very symbolic to me. I can’t wait to finish it by summertime. oil on wood / My love is art. It’s the only love I know that won’t fail me. ~Artistmind
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