I’d love to know for sure what this extraterrestrial-like creature is. I think it’s either a white ermine or satin moth, but better lepidopterists than me might correct me. I took the poorer photo looking at the moth’s face and comb-like antennae yesterday - a difficult angle as it was sitting on the garage door. I took the other photo earlier of another example, sitting on the floor.
#lepidoptery #moth #InMyGarden #lepidopterist #ButterflyConservation #MothsAndButterflies #GayGardener

Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.

Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, …

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"Milkweed is a vital aspect of the #monarchbutterfly life cycle. It’s the only #plant that #monarchs can lay their #eggs on because it’s the only plant their #caterpillars can eat. Milkweed also offers protection to monarch caterpillars. #Milkweed is poisonous to many of the caterpillar’s predators. This #poison also #protects the caterpillars after it becomes a #butterfly because the #toxins stay in its body."
#lepidopterist #lepidopterists #extinction #florida #nature
https://pureairnatives.com/why-native-milkweed-plants-are-crucial-to-monarch-butterflies/#:~:text=Milkweed%20is%20a%20vital%20aspect,many%20of%20the%20caterpillar's%20predators.