btc-bandit:

morphiene:

ok tumblr, i’ve seen your obsession with worms and frogs… but hear me out on this,… have you ever heard of POODLE MOTHS

This is a toy of a domesticated silkworm moth, which looks exactly the same but is significantly smaller. Moth bodies don’t work at that size. The “Venezuelan poodle moth” most likely does not exist, because the person who discovered it only got one picture over a decade ago and no one else has ever seen one.

There are a few sorts of moth that you would probably like, such as the previously mentioned domesticated silkworm moth- That is what most of our silk production comes from! Rosy maple moths are similar in form but they are a bright pink and yellow color. Hummingbird hawk moths are very cool, too, they are moths that are attempting to imitate hummingbirds, and do a much better job of it than you would initially assume. Less fuzzy, but still beautiful moths exist, such as a whole family of moths known as the shiny head standing moths! They are all pure white moths like this, but with shimmering gold patterns on them.

Moths are really cool, but this particular image gets passed around as a “poodle moth” a lot after people misunderstood the original article about the Venezuelan poodle moth somehow and it has started to bug me.