Moth!!
A cucumber moth apparently! With slightly transparent wings!
How did it get in my room is the question!
[Image description start. Four photos showing a cucumber moth.
The moth holds its wings flat out to the sides, forming a wide rounded triangle like shape. It's head and a border around all of the edges of its wings is solid black, with the inside sections of the wings and its body white. There are two slightly upraised black sections on the border forming small half circles.
At the end of its tail on either side are too orange pom-pom like features, with some silver and black mixed in. His eyes are solid black and hard to see, and it has extremely thin long antenna they're folded down over its back so that they are almost invisible.
The first photo shows the moth from the side showing that it's tail curves upward like a scorpion.
The second shows it from above with a ruler placed below to show that is almost exactly an inch wide.
In these two photos it is sitting on the orange arm of a camper chair, with four sections on its wings that are slightly transparent showing it as pale pink.
The next photo shows it's sitting on a black sweatshirt, with the transparent sections of its wings now gray.
The last photo shows it's sitting on the inside of a clear plastic container, showing that it's belly and the undersides of its wings are pure white, with some of the black border showing through faintly.
Image description end.]
Update half an hour later: the pom poms mean this is a female looking for a mate! They help spread pheromones so makes can find her! Male moths usually have very wide antenna for this purpose, though I wasn't sure if it was the same for this species :)
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anyways unrelated to the last post, Condylostylus mundus my beloved. please hold still for me this year so I can get good pictures of you. you're so pretty.
It's a tiny little fly that's iridescent royal blue.
Here's a picture I got last year:
[ID: A photograph showing a raised garden bed, with the focus on an iridescent dark blue fly sitting on the leaf of a bean plant. Its head and abdomen are dark blue, and the thorax is lighter, almost cyan. End ID.]
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Growing Up Antic
A moulting grasshopper in the Gardens by the Bay. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.
The macro lens happened to be with me that day when I chanced upon this grasshopper struggling to grow up. At ISO 500, noise was unexpectedly high (8.5) coming out of a full-frame sensor. This was easily fixed in post which also helped to smooth out the nervous bokeh a bit.
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zoology student here! found you via the malaria post (funnily enough this week my class has had quite a handful of lectures on malaria as part of a unit on parasitism) and im just... blown the absolute heck away by your posts AKJHSFHJKCB. it is scratching my brain in such a great way. you are doing the gods' work, keep it up!
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Closest match: Drepanosiphum platanoidis genome assembly, chromosome: 5
Common name: Sycamore aphid
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