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franzanth.bsky.social
Small lepidopterans (moths & butterflies):
2/5⭐
Cup, if possible, then uncup outside, with some velocity to ensure forward trajectory.

Large lepidopterans (mostly butterflies):
0/5⭐
Mostly uncuppable, open the window and shoo them out.

Odonates (dragon & damselflies):
0/5⭐
Uncuppable, see above.
February 23, 2024 at 10:55 AM
idrood.bsky.social
Will I find other Lepidopterans if I head to Broad Ford Bridge? #TheMoonlightMarket #DieSchmetterlinge 😈🦋
August 9, 2024 at 6:50 PM
silverpebble2.bsky.social
I just rang someone who created the nature reserve I’m walking in as I type to tell him that 2 endangered butterflies (the wall brown, this guy👇🏼) just had full-on flappy sexy times in front of me & so he’s made a home for beleaguered (but randy) lepidopterans. Small sexy very good news 👀✔️👉🏼👌🏼
September 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
lepidfailure.bsky.social
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December 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
bathnature.bsky.social
Lepidopterans from Lord's Wood, Pensford, near #Bath - Purple Hairstreak, Brown Argus, Small Copper, and Hummingbird Hawkmoth.
#Nature #Wildlife #Butterfly #Moth #Insect #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography
Purple Hairstreak Brown Argus Small Copper Hummingbird Hawkmoth
July 24, 2026 at 9:20 AM
jameslowenwild.bsky.social
Highlight of today’s @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social moth breakfast was one of my fave Mediterranean lepidopterans: Eutelia adulatrix. Look those eyes… and that line of blood…
March 31, 2026 at 6:09 AM
jameslowenwild.bsky.social
I had three hopes for my short Cornish trip (my reward for taking teenagers to Boardmasters): find a Wilson’s Storm-petrel, catch a Striped Hawk-moth & other migrants lepidopterans, and lure a Slender Burnished Brass. A departing gift at dawn today sealed the triumvirate. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
August 10, 2026 at 7:04 AM
cornsilk.bsky.social
thinking about how lepidopterans had evolved proboscises well before the emergence of flowering plants cuz they’d been slurping stuff like animal dung and eye juice
August 25, 2024 at 12:27 PM
grays.art
V-mark skipper butterfly
(Choranthus vitellius)

The week before last in
Fajardo, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

#skippers #entymology #lepidopterans #butterflies #flowers #puertoRico #macro #photography #macroPhotography #insects #bugs #nature #naturalist #wildLife #wildflowers
Light orangy-brown skipper alights on small wild flower to nectar among grass blades.
January 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
ichnologist.bsky.social
Oldest known fossil evidence of lepidopterans (butterflies & moths), from the Triassic (~236 mya) of Argentina! Scales from the wings of these insects were preserved in dicynodont coprolites, & were likely on plants eaten by the dicynodonts. www.science.org/content/arti... #PoopScience 🧪💩🪨🦋
Ancient poop yields world’s oldest butterfly fossils
Tiny wing scales suggest the proboscis evolved 100 million years before flowers
www.science.org
June 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
grays.art
Cross's wave moth
(Leptostales crossii)

Thursday in Las Croabas
Fajardo, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

#geometrid #moths #entymology #lepidopterans #butterflies #puertoRico #macro #photography #macroPhotography #insects #bugs #nature #naturalist #pink
Pink patterned moth lying flat against a leaf
January 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
grays.art
Northern tropical buckeye side view
(Junonia zonalis)

Two weeks ago in Las Croabas
Fajardo, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

#geometrid #entymology #lepidopterans #butterflies #moths #puertoRico #macro #photography #macroPhotography #insects #bugs #nature #naturalist 🦋
January 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
franzanth.bsky.social
Cockroaches:
5/5⭐
Cup, then yeet.

Mantises:
2/5⭐
Too big to cup. Get to climb to arm, then fling outside.

Flies:
0/5⭐
Uncuppable. Just give up

Hornets:
0/5⭐
Uncuppable. See dragonflies.

Small wasps & bees:
2/5⭐
Cup, if possible. See small lepidopterans.

Earwigs:
5/5⭐
Cup, then yeet.
February 23, 2024 at 10:58 AM
bathnature.bsky.social
Lepidopterans from Lord's Wood, Pensford (near #Bath) - Brown Argus, Silver-washed Fritillary, Peacock and Small Fan-footed Wave.
#Nature #Wildlife #Butterfly #Moth #Insect #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography
Brown Argus Silver-washed Fritillary Peacock Small Fan-footed Wave
July 13, 2026 at 5:24 AM
jillsunflower.bsky.social
Dreamy lepidopterans: a surface pattern.

🦋 #illustration ✨ #design ✨ #butterflies 🦋
Another repeating surface pattern drawn by me, a human, to use for my clothing designs. It has dreamy rainbow clouds with starry night sky peeking through, and colorful moths and butterflies flying all around.
May 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
grays.art
Purple-washed skipper butterfly
(Panoquina lucas)

Last pic from Las Croabas, taken a couple long weeks ago now…
Fajardo, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

#entymology #lepidopterans #butterflies #moths #puertoRico #macro #photography #macroPhotography #insects #bugs #nature #naturalist 🦋
January 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
jillsunflower.bsky.social
Dreamy lepidopterans ✨
A surface pattern drawn by me to use for my clothing designs. It has dreamy rainbow clouds with starry sky peeking through, and colorful moths and butterflies. Topics: fashion, indie clothing, textile design
May 3, 2026 at 5:19 PM
grays.art
Northern tropical buckeye butterfly
(Junonia zonalis)

Two weeks ago in Las Croabas
Fajardo, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

#geometrid #entymology #lepidopterans #butterflies #moths #puertoRico #macro #photography #macroPhotography #insects #bugs #nature #naturalist 🦋
January 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
flamescales29.bsky.social
Lepidopterans, large insects that produce a wide variety of slime which they use to maintain their massive communal hives

#Ben10 #ben10art #speculativebiology #speculativeevolution
July 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
sarahmackattack.bsky.social
For example, "Um Doctor McAnulty you know full well that lepidopterans are not BUGS, the true bugs are hemipterans, and thus bug should be reserved for only that order". Please. Let me call not-technically-bugs bugs.
July 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
else.social
it's good for lepidopterans. it's enrichment!
June 28, 2026 at 10:52 PM
stevenwright58.bsky.social
A few lepidopterans we saw on a walk in #AshlawncuttingLNR after today's work party. Lots of Comma's sparring,Silver Washed Fritillarys staying cool,Cinnabar larvae feeding and a female Large Skipper. @warwickshirewt.bsky.social @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social
Summer brood Comma Male Silver Washed Fritillary Cinnabar moth caterpillars Female Large Skipper
June 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
danielkronauer.bsky.social
Here’s another spectacle of New York spring entomology: Eastern tent caterpillars (Malacosoma americanum) are among the most social lepidopterans. In May, you can find their silken tents, in which they aggregate (and defecate).
May 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
grays.art
Caribbean wasp moth
(Horama pretus)

Shy moth evolved to look quite like a wasp for protection, don’t you think?

Its caterpillars feed on Wild Calabash tree/bush (Cassinae xylocarpa) 🇵🇷

#entymology #lepidopterans #moths #puertoRico #macro #photography #insects #bugs #nature #naturalist #waspmimic
Brown, white, black and yellow moth nectarine on white and lavender flowers.
January 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM