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CHALLENGING YOU TO DRAW THE BUG DRAGONS
on it boss o7
#Sorry they’re ocs#and sorry if I got anything wrong about hivewings or silkwings#I love the shape language with the pantalan tribes#the leafwing plant cell scales are inspired#my art#oc art#oc stuff#horst#wof art#wings of fire#Calyptra#Blackjacket
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@aleglessoverlookednovemberecho submitted: Found this lovely chub chomping on my meadow rue in northwestern vermont. It ate aaaaaalll the leaves, but the meadow rue still bloomed magnificently a short time later. Yay! ID please?
What a long, precious angel! This sweet friend is a Canadian owlet moth caterpillar, which is in the genus Calyptra and boy, you will never guess what these dudes are up to. The genus is collectively referred to as vampire moths for the adults' habit of drinking the blood of mammals. I have even read anecdotal stories of them sipping from humans. The subfamily they belong to is known as the fruit-piercing moths, so likely the ability to drink blood just evolved from the ability to pierce fruit with their proboscis. Extra nutrients! Can't say no to that. The caterpillars, as you found out, feed on meadow rue.
Here's an adult:
Photo by claudette-cormier
#submission#insects#bugs#animals#moth#vampire moth#Erebidae#fruit pirecing moth#canadian owlet moth#Calyptra#caterpillar#larva
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The Vampire Moth: these moths use a specialized proboscis to pierce the skin on pieces of fruit and feed on the juices inside, but some have also been observed using the same tactic to feed on human blood
Members of the genus Calyptra are often collectively referred to as "Vampire Moths." All members of this genus are obligate fruit-piercers, meaning that they all subsist primarily on fruit, and they must use their proboscis to pierce through the skin -- but 10 species of Calyptra (out of 18 species in total) have also been documented using the same technique to feed on the blood of living vertebrates, and some are even known to feed on humans.
Blood-feeding (i.e. hematophagy) seems to occur only among the adult males. In various cases, vampire moths have been known to feed on the blood of pigs, antelope, water buffalo, deer, tapir, cattle, elephants, and humans (among other things). Before it can feed, the moth must press its proboscis against the surface of the skin and then oscillate its head back and forth until it is able to pierce through the skin.
Then, according to an article in Entomology Today:
As blood from the host animal wells up, it opens hooks on the sides of the proboscis to anchor it firmly. The proboscis has two parts that alternate between anchoring and drilling through host tissue using an “antiparalell” movement. A bite from a Calyptra moth is red and sore, but is believed to pose no danger to human beings. A vampire moth can suck blood for up to 50 minutes.
Calyptra is a widely distributed genus, with species appearing on most continents, but blood-feeding only seems to occur within the Calyptra populations in South/Southeast Asia and North/Eastern Russia. Some species have been known to feed on blood within certain parts of their geographical range, while feeding only on fruit throughout the rest of their habitat. It's widely speculated that differences in elevation, precipitation, and/or other macroclimate conditions may have an effect on those behaviors.
The biological purpose of blood-feeding among vampire moths is not known, but many scientists theorize that it may allow the males to supplement their salt intake in order to produce healthier offspring.
Calyptra moths are also excellent leaf mimics; their wings are patterned/textured much like dry leaves, enabling them to remain camouflaged when their wings are folded.
Sources/More Info
Purdue University: Investigations of the Vampire Moth Genus Calyptra (PDF)
Entomological Society of America: Geographic Distribution and Differential Feeding Behaviors of the Fruit-Piercing and Skin-Piercing Moth, Calyptra thalictri
Science Direct: Wound-Feeding and Skin-Piercing Moths
Entomology Today: Vampire Moths Suck the Blood of Vertebrates, Including Humans
The Daily Garden: Vampire Moths
Images: [1] C. orthograpta [2] C. minuticornis [3] C. minuticornis [4] C. thalictri [5] C. minuticornis
#entomology#insects#moths#lepidoptera#calyptra#vampire moths#cute moth#nature is weird#just take my blood#you adorable little weirdo
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caltraps x calyptra from @ungodly-thespian
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what is your favourite bug?
God, that's a tough one because I love so many. I can definitely say my favourite group of bugs is moths. I even once had a job where I was the curatorial assistant of Lepidoptera at a museum for 2 years.
As for an individual bug...very hard to say, but I do love the Vampire Moth because it looks like he's wearing a little leafy cape:
Note I can't say for sure this is my favourite bug. I could probably name 100 bugs that are my favourite, but I chose this guy because he popped into my head first <3
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what if all my sonas were just 1 guy
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Based on @ivory-things personality swapped Victoria I bring to you
Calyptra
The personality swapped version of the beloathed Cetri who needs actual art and not just sketches
More boring info under the cut
Calyptra and Cetri both chose the names they go by, but because of the personality swap I can see Calyptra choosing their name because they believe it's more feminine whereas Cetri deliberately tried to come up with a more androgynous one.
Is malicious on purpose and tries getting what they want no matter what it takes or who it hurts.
Doesn't smoke weed, sticks with cigarettes and always has a pack hidden away from plain view to keep up a friendly and approachable demeanor.
#die schule der kleinen vampire#school for vampires#school for little vampires#cetri#calyptra#rabid art#swap au#I LOVE aus I can't stress that enough
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Vampire moth, please!! They drink blood from vertebrates.
Moth Of The Day #136
Vampire Moth
Calyptra thalictri
From the erebidae family. They have a wingspan of 40-45 mm. They tend to inhabit herb-rich and mosaic-like areas with steppe-like grasslands, rock fragments and sparse forests. They can be found in China, Korea, Japan, Malaysia and Southern Europe. This the most common species of the calyptra genus, which are all referred to as vampire moths, due to their ability to drink the blood of vertebraes, including humans.
#moth#moths#lepidopterology#lepidoptera#pretty moth#nature#insect#bugs#moth of the day#motd#pretty moths#bug#insects#vampire moth#calyptra moth#calyptra thalictri#erebidae#erebidae moth#bugblr#lepidoptery#entomology
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one day i’ll rally the brain cells and then all of you who follow me for unhinged rwby posting WILL read my descent into eldritch madness about my niche video game interests. this is a threat
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Vampire moth - Calyptra thalictri.
Image credit: Ilia Ustyantsev
#ilia ustyantsev#photographer#vampire moth#moth#calyptra thalictri#nature#australia#australian geographic
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Hai guys ! Ai have daiscovered thais new thaing , aidk aif you all have heard of ait ait's called " selfaies " ? Ai took one with Caltraps !
He was too busy waith hais game , but oh well !
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The best thing ever is making ocs for things I'm not really knowledgeable of because that means I have to do a lot of research and learn about it so it's accurate
Anyways I made Homefucks
I like. Cherubs and robots. So I made that
Uhhh normal cherub backstory stuff here, but Calyptra died and Caltraps stuffed his soul into a robot. Yippeeeee
If I got things wrong no I didn't /j
#ocs#my ocs#...will i use the main tag.#no actually thats scary#homestuck ocs#my art#digital art#art#original character#calyptra (oc)#caltraps (oc)
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i think maybe theres no way to make mothman scary other than saying he’s part calyptra. bc like yeah glowy eyes in the middle of the night is scary but you’d go up to him and realise he has no mouth or anything. just chillin.
#i guess if he blew up that silver bridge with dynamite thats scary but its#like the equiv of a vampire using none of its powers and just punching someone instead#if that makes sense#like it doesnt matter he's a mothman if he does non-moth shit#he might as well be some bridge hater guy#calyptra are the moths who drink blood btw#with the sharp proboscis
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Let us build for ourselves a city
Beneath the claws and cloaks and thirst for blood, beneath the touch of Corobel, beneath their strange homes and stranger thoughts, the Calyptra are human. The curse of humanity; to never feel satisfaction, to always chase some greater goal; that is their birthright as well.
At least in humans, this is mitigated by physical reality. Hunger and thirst will crowd out ennui, the day-to-day struggle for survival dominates questions of higher purpose. Some humans go all their lives without ever giving much thought to that nagging sense of imperfection, too occupied with eking out a living.
But the Calyptra live in an otherwordly paradise. They never go hungry, they need serve no kings, and the few beasts that dare hunt them cannot follow onto the shore. Some become great philosophers, engaged in endless debate about reality and morality. Some seek solace in art, carving blocks of regolith into sculpture, adorning it with shades of red. A few boldly journey inland, starving themselves of blood for days at the time, and return bearing meteoric treasures and strange lunar gems. Mystics and poets and craftsmen all exist among them, as they do among humans.
Most, however, build.
(and they call the thing they built a city, but it has no market-squares, no palaces, no temples, no roads or mills or wells, and in fact its people have no need for cities, and hardly even remember them, and the thing they build is no city at all, but a great stone gate, built for a hateful dark star that spirals inward even now)
Truth-Descends-from-the-Heavens is enormous. The cyclopean city stretches beyond the horizon, its great towers reach a hundred meters into the heavens. A great ziggurat, built far from the shore and slowly sloping up, measures half a mile, and some add to it still. Canals snake between the buildings, providing fresh blood to the city's occupants; many buildings collect blood in their basements and so remove any need to ever head outside. Bridges-turned-tunnels, their cracks sealed with mud, span the bloodways, allowing for easy travel between buildings.
Much of this space is pointless, constructed only because construction was called for. Some buildings are hollow within; others are completely solid. Labyrinthine corridors wind around vast empty rooms, stairs are rough and incomplete, sometimes requiring vast vertical jumps to ascend, designs are unbound by considerations of inhabitant or utility. Nearer to the shoreline, the constructions continue beneath the sea's surface. Blood-filled tunnels connect inland basements to submerged vestibules, megaliths ever-untouched by the sun bear glyphs said to turn away sea monsters.
To most Calyptra, the city is nothing but a form of therapy: an opportunity for endless creation that somehow, somewhat, lessens that terrible wanting feeling. They roam it aimlessly, adding onto the design where their strange standards deem it lacking, painting the floors, carving sigils and images in the walls, pausing only to attend to their needs, to breed, to gather stone from the great quarries beneath.
But some take this plentiful space and turn it towards other ends. A lone astronomer has claimed a single tall tower, drawing vast star charts on its walls and floors, heading out to the roof to study the night sky (trying, as she does so, not to glance too much at the shining world's poles). Others construct ritual chambers, crypts, classrooms, libraries, shrines. In a secluded spot one may find a museum, showcasing bones of sea-beasts and treasures from afield, and even a basin of the strange clear fluid from the lifeless ocean far to the south.
And of course there is community, still. Calyptra are no loners, and desire companionship, and a lone Calyptra wandering the halls will in time come across others and join them. In bands from a handful to a hundred, they travel and work together, splitting and merging as they see fit. What conflict the Calyptra know arises between these groups: more commonly over the proper thing to construct than over tribute or territory.
All of these little wars, these tunnels and chambers and dreams, the cults worshipping their grandfathers' works; they matter not to the intelligence behind it. An anthill cares not for its ants, and likewise the dark star sees only an ever-expanding perimeter, an ever more complex target to hone in on: it is pleased at this.
The moon, who is like a god, might once have hoped to resist the hatestar's arrival at great cost, to turn it away, unleash secret arts upon it, perhaps even destroy it. But the city is a doorway, and an inexorable path points through it: while it stands, it shall one day be reached.
(This is part of my previous action; the creation of the Calpytra. No points are expended)
#world 02457 diegesis#i am not going to give any kind of estimate about the population you would need to construct this in 1-2 centuries#but given that the calyptra have a crazy high upper limit on their population right now#i'm pretty confident it's doable#also obviously there's a lot of calyptra in the sea and shores as well who all have their own coping mechanisms for the human condition#the numbers given for building height assume it scales linearly with inverse gravity; if i am wrong please tell me
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calyptra thalictri by luvcorewhor3
Author's summary:
The torment Seonghwa has been living with suddenly comes to a head. Hongjoong waits patiently on the other side.
Chapters: 1/1
Words: 1,140
Absolutely stunning! Very much in love with this <3
#calyptra thalictri#luvcorewhor3#ateez fanfiction#ateez#fic rec#ao3#archive of our own#fanfiction#fanfiction recommendation#fan fiction
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