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Six-spot burnet/sexfläckig bastardsvärmare. Dublin, Ireland (August 1, 2022).
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12/06/2023-RSPB South Stack
Photos taken here today in this set are of: 1. Chough, it was astonishing so see a decent handful of these energetic and ravishing scarlet billed crows as they picked at the grassy cliffs and dashed over our heads announcing themselves with their sharp and vibrant onomatopoeic calls as they went. An exceptional way to see my first of the year of this species, taking my year list to 205 just one behind last year’s total my highest ever, one of a few amazing experiences we’ve had with Choughs over the past few years at this sensational place for them. 2. Puffins, another red beaked bird I love so much that it was incredible to see well today. Four trips involving seeing Puffins in 2022 and 2023 makes me feel incredibly lucky and I never tire of seeing these iconic birds. 3 and 4. Guillemots and Razorbills, two more amazing seabirds it was wonderful to see packed tightly onto the cliffs, on the water and flying today. I love these birds and it was another splendid and immersive seabird experience today. 5, 9 and 10. Views at this beautiful spot. 6. Sheep’s-bit, an enigmatic and pretty flower that has been a star this holiday so far. 7. Some of my first centuary of the year, a smashing flower that I always like seeing. 8. Mating Swollen-thighed beetles.
Fulmar, Kittiwakes, Gannet, Raven, Magpie, Jackdaw on a strong corvid day, Stonechat, Rock Pipit, Pied Wagtail, House Martin, Common Blue butterfly, Red Admiral and Small Tortoiseshell were other highlights here. It was a strong insect trip here with a phenomenal Hummingbird hawk-moth seen fluttering through the air, my first Six-spot Burnet moth seen this year, an Oak Eggar moth caterpillar and exquisite views of a shiny Rose Chafer beetle our first ever. Stunning moments with Hairy shield bug seen too. Heather in flower as we’ve often seen here the great purple colour, honeysuckle, English stonecrop, chamomile, restharrow, purple sandwort and sea plantain again key finds so far this holiday, thrift and thyme including mixed well at one point and sea campion were key flowers seen here.
#puffin#chough#gannet#fulmar#guillemot#razorbill#auks#seabirds#birdwatching#uk#world#purple sandwort#sea campion#six-spot burnet#hummingbird hawk-moth#english stonecrop#sheep's-bit#flowers#rose chafer beetle#stonechat#cliffs#crow#house martin#pied wagtail#birding#south stack#anglesey#rspb south stack#wales#europe
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@sarnie-for-varney submitted: Found this pupa today (or at least I think it is). The most common butterflies we get around here at this time of year are gatekeepers, cabbage whites, and speckled woods. So I'm unsure what kind of creature could possibly emerge! Found in the West Midlands, England.
It's a moth cocoon actually rather than a butterfly chrysalis. I wouldn't be able to say which species exactly, but it's a burnet moth in the genus Zygaena. In your area the six-spot burnet would be the most common, so possibly that! The little black bit sticking out the top is the leftover caterpillar skin from when it molted into a pupa :)
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Six-spot burnet moth Zygaena filipendulae
A day-flying moth found commonly in meadows throughout Europe.
Image credit: Schwoaze on Pixabay
[image ID: a dark metallic green moth with six bisected red spots on the forewings resting on purple thistle flower with an unknown bee species in the background. The hind wings of the moth are hidden but a small glimpse of red is visible.]
#six spot burnet moth#zygaena filipendulae#moth#Schwoaze#lepidoptera#zygaenidae#zygaena#europe#image free from pixabay#insect
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Six-spot Burnet Moth (Zygaena filipendulae), family Zygaenidae, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Diurnal moth.
photographs by Albert de Heij
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Hazbin Hotel redesign ideas p. 1
Unfortunately I don't really have time to draw rn, but here are some ideas if anyone is looking for inspiration.
THE VEES:
They follow lates trends so they won't stick to the outfits and technologies from the times they died. We even see that Vox changed his screen (head) to more modern, flat TV screen.
Valentino:
He is a moth that realises poison that's basically a date-rape drug. His wings are hidden, looking like a coat, which makes no sense, a cloak, cape or sleeveless coat would look better. He is a pimp who died in 1970s. Val was Hispanic when living. Apparently, he has bad eyesight.
He is supposed to be a moth, but I don't really see it much, and the furr around his neck, that's a part of his body, just looks ridiculous. I would design him after some actual poisonous moth.
Cinnabar moth - The cinnabar is slate-black with two red spots and two pinky-red stripes on the rounded forewings. Its hindwings are pinky-red and bordered with black. The caterpillars feed on poisonous ragwort leaves. The poison from the leaves is stored in the caterpillar's body and remains even when they are an adult. As adult they leak the poison when they need to. Cinnabar moths can be seen flying during the day and night.
Six-spot burnet moth - day-flying moth that flies with a slow, fluttering pattern. It has glossy black, with six red spots on each narrow, but long forewing. They release hydrogen cyanide when attacked.
Personally I would go with Cinnabar moth, but make the spots heart shaped, and leave his inner outfit without the accessories (the suit with the white pants and golden heart belt). I would also leave his general body type but definitely change the neck furr ring, because wtf is that? I would play around with his glasses since he is supposed to have eyesight problems.
[Edit: Actually, I would make him a combo of both moths and make the furr ring his hair, because he is bald without the hat!?!?]
Velvette:
Velv is a fashion designer and critic, she is also an influencer. She keeps the Vees together and their image fresh on the internet. She's a British black woman in her early 30's. Originally her appearance was supposed to be doll-like, but that was changed to 'it-girl' and a 'bad bitch' with a darker aesthetic.
Velvette's outfit is reminiscent of Val's (heart belt, coat with hearts, black stripes on arms) but darker, especially her sleeveless coat that imitates his wings. Since Valentino is already going to be darker (in my idea) and she is a fashion influencer it would make more sense for her to be brighter.
Main thing I would change about her is her skin tone, hair, and Harley Quinn themes left from her old design.
When creating very human like characters it's important to actually get the racial characteristics right. Her ashy skin and "curly" hair just makes it look like they didn't know how to draw a black character. I would give her a different texture, something between 3A and 4B. A hairstyle like heart shaped space buns would be so cool, but even if not, her styl in a poster in the background is already better than the ponytails.
When it comes to her style I would get rid of pom-poms shoes and fingerless gloves. Her outfit for meeting the overlord was pretty okay, but I would change her other outfit. My inspiration would be PidginDoll's design, because he makes fabulous outfits and makeup looks for all bodies, genders and races, but I'll keep the 'goth' (it's not goth, it's just a little bit alt, mostly skulls) theme.
Blue accents like makeup would work great with her brown skin and would reference Vox.
Vox:
I genuinely think he has the best design in the entirety of the show, I would barely change anything. His outfit is similar to Alastor who he is trying to imitate, but he wears a tail suit, which is way more formal and elegant than any other suit, trying to showing he is a better, modern version of Alastor. I've seen some people got rid of his hat and gave him a tail made out a cord for fun, but other than that his design is good. Not too much details and not too little, tells us a lot about the character.
Maybe less stripes, because apparently Viv loves zebras or something. /hj
#hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel redesign#hazbin hotel criticism#hazbin hotel critical#the vees#hazbin hotel valentino#hazbin hotel velvette#hazbin hotel vox#hazbin hotel fanart
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Moth of the Week
Nine-Spotted Moth
Amata phegea, formerly Syntomis phegea
The nine-spotted moth or the yellow belted burnet is a moth in the family Erebidae, the family of tiger moths. The species was first described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus. The moths gets its names from the common nine spots on its wings and the yellow band on the sixth segment of its abdomen.
Description Both the moth’s body and wings are an iridescent blue on black or green on black. The wings usually have eight to nine white spots, six spots on the forewings and two or three spots on the hindwings. However the number and the size of these spots can vary per moth. Finally, the moth’s body has its own yellow spot in the second segment of the abdomen accompanied by a yellow band on the sixth segment. The antennae are thin black wires with white tips, unlike most moths’ antennae which are fluffy or saw edged.
Average wingspan of 37.5 mm (≈1.5 in)
Males are smaller than females and have thicker antennae.
Diet and Habitat The nine-spotted moth caterpillars eat many herbaceous plants such as bedstraws, dandelions, docks, fleaworts, grasses, and other low plants. This species is mainly found in southern Europe but makes appearances in northern Germany, Anatolia, the Caucasus, and the Dutch nature reserves of Leudal and Meinweg. It does not breed in the United Kingdom, but does immigrate there on rare occasions. They prefer drier areas such as open ranges with shrubs and trees, open forests, and sunny slopes.
Mating Adult moths mate in late May to August depending on location. Sources vary as to whether this species has one or three generations a year. Females lay an average of 104 eggs on host plants in groups of up to 61 eggs.
Predators The nine-spotted moth avoids predation by birds due to its mimicry of the Zygaena ephialtes. The Z. ephialtes is a moth unpalatable to birds, so its wings are brightly spotted to warn predators of toxicity. This is called aposematism.
Fun Fact The official term for the nine-spotted moth’s type of antennae is filiform, meaning thread-like. It is the most basic type of insect antennae.
(Source: Wikipedia, Moth Identification, CAB Direct, Amateur Entomologists’ Society)
#animals#bugs#facts#insects#libraryofmoths#moth#lepidoptera#mothoftheweek#Amata phegea#nine-spotted moth#yellow belted moth#Erebidae
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Six spot burnet moth on a wild orchid, South Downs, UK
(C) do not use, edit, reupload
#moth#Lepidoptera#uk moth species#uk insects#orchid#chalk upland#british wildlife#ghosti’s photography#non monster post
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Book review: The Disappearance of Butterflies by Josef H. Reichholf
The cover of this book is a bit misleading, as it focuses on European butterflies and doesn't go into any detail about Monarchs, but I liked it. The author Josef Reichholf is a German entomologist that has been studying butterflies since the 1950s, and he knows what he’s talking about. The first part of the book examines the unique adaptations and habits of many species he’s studied, from aquatic moths to ermines to Six-spot Burnets. The latter part of the book details the primary causes of Lepidoptera population decline, and what needs to be done to reverse it. In his view, the largest contributor to the decline is overfertilization in agriculture followed by pesticide use, not urban sprawl or climate change. His studies actually show that cities can be sanctuaries for many species compared to the countryside due to it’s more structured layout than today’s modern farms and the comparatively low use of fertilizers and pesticides there.
#the disappearance of butterflies#Josef h. reichholf#non-fiction#butterflies#nature#conservation#book#bookblr#book review
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Moth wings - strategies to avoid predation
Hide and seek (cryptic colouration) and/or hide and seek but I dress up as the thing I'm hiding on (Wasmannian mimicry)
Pictured: a peppered moth and a wave sphinx moth
'Yeah I'm poisonous, look at my scary bright colors' (aposematism) and/or 'Yeah I'm poisonous, I'm similarly coloured to another poisonous moth which you've eaten before so no need to eat me' (Mullerian mimicry)
Pictured: a female leopard magpie moth, a garden tiger moth and several six-spot burnet moths
'Duh I'm poisonous!! I look like [insert other poisonous insect or animal], but please don't test your theory by biting me otherwise you'll find out I'm not actually poisonous' (Batesian mimicry)
Included in the medley: a wasp mimic (male red oak clearwing), a bumblebee mimic (snowberry clearwing) and a spider mimic (a petrophila species)
Image sources:
Sidenote: I hate formatting posts on mobile eeghhhh
https://le.kloofconservancy.org.za/lockdown-an-opportunity-to-appreciate-your-local-biodiversity/
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Big Butterfly Count 2023: My standout species
As another fabulous three weeks of counting in a vitally important citizen science project approaches its end, I have been reflecting on the many Big Butterfly Counts I have done over the past few weeks. Below are some of the key species I saw with a few comments.
Red Admiral
Where else could I start? This long time favourite butterfly of mine has grabbed the headlines and taken the count by storm with the sheer numbers of them around. It has been fascinating to see the unusually high numbers at this time of year for me, with it being more notable if it was a day I didn't see one than did in the butterfly count a species I might usually see in two or three of my Big Butterfly Counts in a year. Personally it has made me so happy to see so many and really struck to the core of how I fell in love with this charismatic species with some glorious times watching them, key moments in an amazing butterfly year I've had generally. I took the first two pictures in this photoset of Red Admirals at one of the most memorable counts I did this year at Egleton, Rutland Water at the start and on a recent evening at Lakeside Country Park. It also personifies the importance of the count with the indicator of climate change these numbers are with more now overwintering here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66395590
Summer stalwarts: Meadow Brown and Gatekeeper
I have just for fun actually just created two leaderboards out of all my counts this year so far, one overall and one for Lakeside Country Park where I did the most counts. Unsurprisingly Meadow Brown topped both with Gatekeeper third behind Small White overall and second at Lakeside. Where I saw less of their fellow key summer species Marbled White and Ringlet compared to previous years which in the ever shifting seasons perhaps emerged too early and their shorter seasons were waning and ceased here during the count, this pair have been ever present again with me seeing some very high numbers of them on counts. The usual passing of the baton I see where I go from seeing mostly Meadow Browns to mostly Gatekeepers on counts towards the end of it didn't really happen this year as both were high throughout, perhaps due to the Gatekeeper's notable early emergence this year too. I have felt really connected to these colourful butterflies during the three weeks and the Big Butterfly Count wouldn't be the same without them. It's been my best Big Butterfly Count for getting photos of the species included I think and I took the third and fourth in this set of Gatekeeper and fifth of Meadow Brown all at Lakeside.
The white butterflies: Small, Large and Green-veined
The white butterflies in the count have been ever present in my contributions also, with Small White like in 2021 for me really challenging the Meadow Brown and Gatekeeper for the top spots with so many seen. The elegant and alluring Green-veined White was one I notably saw more of in the count this year and I very much enjoyed doing so, taking the sixth and seventh pictures in this photoset of some at Lakeside. Large White is something I see less than I might think generally and I enjoyed some sightings of them during the count.
Speckled Wood
A surprise package this year for me, I have been very happy to observe a fair few of these intricately marked and joyful butterflies during the count this year, another that was more present for me than usual. I took the eighth picture in this photoset of one at Lakeside during the count.
Six-spot Burnet
Onto day flying moths included in the count now and before the count arrived I felt as though I was seeing more of this gorgeous moth the species that first got me into moths back in 2010 this year, but that's something easy to say whilst in the grip of their season. But whilst their season waned during it Big Butterfly Count proved that a bit for me with a high amount seen especially at Lakeside. It was a pleasure to see these dashing moths many times, I took the ninth picture in this photoset of one at Lakeside.
Jersey Tiger moth
Finally it's a quality over quantity moment as on Monday I was over the moon to spot the superb Jersey Tiger moth in the tenth picture in this photoset at Lakeside. It was only the second time I've ever seen this species and first during the Big Butterfly Count days. It was an amazing moment in my moth year getting a great view of it. But there is a notable point for quantity too as amazingly only days into the count I'd seen all of the Big Butterfly Count species in one of my counts apart from a Jersey Tiger. It was improbable I'd spot one given I'd only seen one before, but I did and for the first time ever it means I've every species at least once during my run of doing counts which feels nice.
I would do a highly commended list but fear I would end up saying all of the other species so thought I would say I was so happy to see every species and a few more for quality and quantity really made an impression on me this year. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed contributing to this amazing project again and sharing what I saw.
#butterflies#big butterfly count#photography#england#lakeside#lakeside country park#rutland water#egleton#jersey tiger moth#six-spot burnet#speckled wood#meadow brown#gatekeeper#small white#large white#green-veined white#red admiral#moths#outdoors#europe#summer#2023
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Six-spot Burnet, Zygaena filipendulae Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/2.8 1/500 iso: 200 Srbsko, Czech Republic 7/6/2008
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made a sona for @jaymesdoodles modern fantasy world ^_^
a pixie that presents themselves as calm and collected but is actually willing to bite you for any minor inconvenience. He’s based off of the six spot burnet moth they’re really pretty
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Six-spot burnet - 30x30 cm - oil painting on wood - 2023
Framed: €195, Painting without frame: €175
Available for purchase
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