#ascalapha

[breathinginsulfur]

ascalapha

[sir-squibbly]

AAAHH SO CUTE 💖💖💖 Never seen one before and I love her :3

For anyone who wants an ID: This is a female black witch moth (Ascalapha odorata), which can be found from the southern US to Brazil. It actually has some ties to folklore as an omen, either of death/misfortune, or a sign you’ll make bank. That mostly depends on the culture though.

@floofyflooftheallmighty @lyxthen-reblogs @sir-squibbly hey guys check this sick moth that jumpscared me when I went to get water at night

About the size of my hand open. Got her out in a container then threw her at the night and she flew away

[jadafitch]

Black Witch Moth vinyl stickers! Just added to my Etsy shop. $3, comes with a postcard.

[moths-daily]

Moth Of The Day #28

Black Witch Moth

Ascalapha odorata

From the erebidae family. They have a wingspan of 12-24 mm. They can be found in the United States and Central America. They are a nocturnal moth that has had a lot of folklore surrounded around it, being represented as a harbringer of death in Mexican and Caribbean cultures.

[cemeteryhound]

Ascalapha Odorata, also known as 'the black witch moth' and 'the butterfly of death'

The scientific name 'ascalapha' resembles Ascalaphus, the son of Acheron in Greek mythology, who was turned into an owl by Demeter as a punishment for speaking against Persephone.

Some people consider it a bad omen of tragedy and death, some others say is a lost soul. ~🦋

[mariposabonita]

Ascalapha odorata

Black witch moth, Ascalapha odorata

[daily-dose-of-lepidoptera]

Daily Dose of Lepidoptera

[Day 15]

-Black Witch Moth-

Ascalapha odorata

-Argus Tiger Moth-

Sebastia argus

-Iotaphora iridicolor-

[sleepy-dodo]

I wanted to draw my favorite, grumpiest neighbor...Frank Frankly :D

This moth is an Ascalapha odorata, more commonly known as "black witch moth". It represents (if I did my reaserches correctly) death :)

I'm not really proud of this artwork but I figured I'd still post it

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

moths in general :)

Moths are great, I'll pick one out for the poll! Hopefully this one will be fun with Halloween coming up.

These have a lot of really interesting folklore, I highly recommend checking it out.

[alot-of-axolotl]

Moth I pinned in class as an example of how it actually looks like

I keep seeing that one drawing of moth bill from the livestream and all the moth bill fanart and I just need to say it... THE PINS ARE WRONG!!!! You cannot put the pin through the wings! One entomology pin goes through the thorax and the other pins stay around the body just to keep it in place. They should never pierce the animal's body! It will destroy the specimens! Also, all the extra pins get removed once the body dries in the desired position, so at the end only one pin remains.

[breathinginsulfur]

Me when i make fanart of a dude most people have never heard of

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[akq96618]

[ king ohger oc ]

my bugnarak daughter!!!

Phadora Revau Na

-She's based from Black witch moth (Ascalapha Odorata), and her family name is from an extinct genus, Levuana moth (Levuana iridescens)

-Phadora have similar physiology like human because she came from the same timeline as nephila

-She can't recall how old is she, but she's (technically) older than jeramie, and far younger than nephila

-her family used to be a loyal servants to nephila's bloodline, idmonarak ne, for generations

-even among her own family, she's feared of her ability to know when someone will die ( based from one of black witch moth myths) and her uncontrollable furious form, but nephila always kind to her and didn't care what people think of her.

-still struggle to trust human, but slowly jera and selen taught her that bugnarak and human now living side by side

her lore will be quite long so i'll just put it below-

She's actually the next hakaa baaka messenger after debonica, when she's about to get caught by human who tricked her family, the messenger before debonica brought her to hakaa baaka, and put her into long sleep for thousand years. And then debonica brought her back to earth so she can stay there till her time comes.

Jeramie and teenage Selen found her at deeper part of bugnarak cave, she didn't believe that Jeramie is nephila's son at first, but after seeing his and selen's hand, and his story, she trust him.

She and Selen is a complete opposite but still undertstands each other just like Gira and Jeramie, as they grow up, Phadora can see through Selen's smile when he's not okay and Selen always comfort her when she struggles with her new life after put on hibernate for thousand years. I don't intend to make their dynamics romantic, but rather platonic, like.... they're more like a soul mate kind of best friend....it doesn't have to be romantic right??

Selen's also one of the reason of she started to trust human other than Jeramie and Selen (still hold a small grudge to gira bcs she thought jera could get a better man than him///well she's wrong///j)

She helps a lot at hazama no kuni with jobs that needed brain, sometimes taught the sanegims too with Selen. Phadora mostly helps gerojim's work as an aide when jeramie is not around. She also helps yanma and jeramie with their research when it comes to ancient language, linguistic, or history.

[felisuuu]

Art that I haven't posted yet

It's literally what the title says, I don't have much art made since I have changed my artstyle very recently but don't worry because I have a lot of wips that I plan to finish soon, I know these aren't that great as the last post that's because I was still experimenting with this artstyle also nuuuu school is starting for me tomorrow :'(((

Ps. The last one is fanart for Ascalapha go check out his music he's literally awesome

[sorry-but-no-sorry]

Part 10 of the Moth saga comes as a package deal!

Staring

-Mothmy Dimitrescu as a white witch moth / thysania agrippina

-Moth-er Miranda as a black witch moth / ascalapha odorata

-And the daughters who are actually corpse butterflies / purple emperor butterflies /apatura iris

@exhausted.tech

[moths-daily]

Hey!! I find this BIIIG guy here, do you know what is his species??

(I live in Brazil if that helps)

Yes, that's a Black Witch Moth!

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

trick or treat...........................................

*stumbles and drops a bunch of moths*

oh whoops, looks like i dropped the black witch moth (Ascalapha odorata), the light and dark peppered moths (Biston betularia betularia) (the second highest honor i can bestow), the cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae) and the oleander hawk-moth (Daphnis nerii)

anyways!!!!! actual answer: the highest honor i can bestow upon someone:

the domesticated silk moth (bombyx mori)!!!!! this is where we get most of our silk from! they cannot fly on their own as a result of domestication. our lovely silks and velvets come from these wonderful lads ^^ little fabric-makers <3