This week's moth, Lithophane lamda, AKA "The Nonconformist" is also my 40th BIRTHDAY MOTH, and I tried to do it as some easter eggs for my niece! (paint was tricky on wet humid eggs in the tropics!)
#nonconformist #moth #teamMoth #mothweek2026 #mothweekart26 #mothweek #SciArt #YearOfTheMoth
Nonconformist moth with dark grey, light brown scales and white powdery higlights looking at you with dark compound eyes upon deep fern green backdrop speckled with light grey dust microbubbles.
Since February, took up the #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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Here's the 10th moth. Meet the Nonconformist! Lithophane lamda 💙 #nonconformist #moth #teamMoth #mothweek2026 #mothweekart26 #mothweek mothing with
@dinalab.bsky.social @amnh.org
Male moth and what looks like a caterpillar mating, but actually is a wingless adult female
Last #YearOfTheMoth of my 30's! #YearOfTheMoth Heterogynis penella.
This alpine moth females remain a wingless grub who lays eggs in her old cocoon and then gets devoured by her babies.
#moth #teamMoth #mothweek2026 #mothweekart26 #mothweek
Dark brownish thorax of Heterogynis penella moth with 2 shorts antenna, almost translucent furry wings, gripping on a slim blade of grass. With a light green contrast background.
Still going on with the #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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Here's 9th moth. Meet the playful Heterogynis penella. 💙 #playful #moth #teamMoth #mothweek2026 #mothweekart26 #mothweek mothing with
@dinalab.bsky.social @amnh.org
Even @theguardian.com knows that it's #YearOfTheMoth!
Forget birdwatching, I’m into moth-watching: they’re fascinating and misunderstood insects | Helen Pilcher | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's moth is the Death's Head Hawkmoth!
Did a lil watercolor of it at Dinalab craft night for #YearOfTheMoth
#SciArt
Black and bright yellow moth with 2 large compound eyes staring at you. The thorax and abdomen is relaxed like semi sleeping position. 2 antennae are above each eye and well spread like car windshield. 1 of its legs are lifted similar to the "no thanks meme"
Still going on with the #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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Here's 8th moth. Meet shy and cutey Death's-head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos. Made famous as front cover - Silence of the Lambs 💙 #💀 #cute #moth #smrtihlav #teamMoth mothing with
@dinalab.bsky.social
yeah yeah yeah @dradriansmith.bsky.social knows what year it is!
#YearOfTheMoth #SciArt
Remember you can join the #YearOfTheMoth fun at any time! Make some kind of art about one of these moths and just tag it "#YearOfTheMoth" and have fun!
#SciArt
This week's moth is Xanthopan morganii praedicta or Morgan's Sphinx Moth!
Scientists found the orchid with a super long nectar tube and Darwin assumed there must be a moth with a snoot long enough to drink its nectar, and Wallace correctly guessed exactly what type of moth!
#YearOfTheMoth #SciArt
Furry light brown head of the Morgan's phinx moth with dark compound black eye and rolled up proboscis that looks like a spring. Background is dark reddish brown with some specks of grey dust all over the image.
Onward with the #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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Here's 7th moth. Meet the one with a very very long tongue 🤪 - Morgan's Sphinx Moth, X. morganii . It can reach up to 16cm. Similar smartphone length! 💙 #long #proboscis #moth #teamMoth mothing with
@dinalab.bsky.social
Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica is a cute lil brown moth seemingly from a magic realism novel.
It gently lands on sleeping birds in Madagascar and extends its long, sharp tongue under their eyelids to drink their salty tears.
#yearOfTheMoth #SciArt
photo of pi desktop with 64mp photo
Ohhh for #PiDay i just got the firmware for the Mothbox optimized enough that you can use a #pi 5 2GB instead of a 4GB to take huge 64mp photos!
With the current RAM crisis, this will directly save ~$20 on EVERY BUILD! (plus might save a tiny bit more energy?)
#mothbox #YearOfTheMoth
Dark brown moth (Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica) perched on top of a grey bird (with blue eyes staring). Grey bird is perched on a green branch.
Onward with the #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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Here comes the 6th moth, Meet the one who drink tears! 😭 - Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica . They drink birds' tears! How cool is that! 💙 #tears #drinker #moth #teamMoth mothing with
@dinalab.bsky.social
This past week's moth in #YearOfTheMoth is the VAMPIRE MOTH!
It has a sharp snout for drinking juice from fruits, but males evolved to suck mammal blood to collect salt which they then give to females through their sperm! #sciArt
Vampire moth that sucks blood against dark green background and constrasting yellowish light straw brown wings with specks of grey dust surrounding the moth. The moth is perched on a dark grey branch.
Onward with the #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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Here comes the 5th moth, Meet the Vampire! 🦇 - Calyptra thalictra . They really suck blood! 💙 #vampire #moth #teamMoth mothing with
@dinalab.bsky.social
Final Moth for February in the #YearOfTheMoth: Actias Luna- the Luna Moth!
Probably the most charismatic of all popular moths, its the only moth to ever be featured on a US postal stamp!
(Also just landed in Barcelona and got vegan tapas!)
White feathery Luna Moth with green undersides that mimicked lush green leaves. Perched on a green leaf with 3 different tones of medium green, light green and yellowish green. It's body with deep plum red and greyish eyes looking forward at you.
Onward with the #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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Here comes the 4th moth, Meet Luna! - Actias luna 💙 #luna #moth #teamMoth mothing with
@dinalab.bsky.social
Cryptoses choelepi- Sloth Moss Moths!
This lil snout moth's life cycle forms the mobile ecosystem of a sloth!
This moth
-lives in sloth fur+mates with frens
-eats sloth ooze
-lays babies in sloth poop
-dies in sloth fur to fertilize the algae
-sloths eat algae for nutrition!
#yearOfTheMoth #SciArt
Guardian article screenshot showing how New Zealand just named a moth bug of the year!
Other countries might be all like, "you can't just declare 2026 #YearOfTheMoth, Andy"
But New Zealand knows what's up!
Sloth with sloth moths. Deep umber red background with hairy sloth looking forward. 8 Sloth moths hanging around its forehead chillaxing.
List of moths for Year of the Moth challenge, creating mothy art every week.
Onward with the #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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Third moth for February - Cryptoses choloepi
Sloth with sloth moths 💙 #sloth #moth #teamMoth mothing with @dinalab.bsky.social
Tomorrow get ready to make tongue-twister #sciart about the moth that lives in moss on sloths!
#yearOfTheMoth #moth #moss #sloth
Just landed in Peru for @wildlabs.bsky.social 's #ICTC conference!
Got my #sciart #moth drawing in for this week's episode of #yearofthemoth !
Utetheisa ornatrix, the Bella Moth! (I didn't have the right colors for it!)
Utetheisa ornatrix (Bella Moth), pink wings with white body thorax landing on small green stick, hanging upside down.
Onward with the #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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Second moth for February - Utetheisa ornatrix (Bella Moth). Blending background colour with the moth's design. 💙 #moth #teamMoth mothing with
@dinalab.bsky.social
Thysania agrippina (The White Witch). Top view: White and dark brown hues of mosaic design, left lower wing slightly torn. Pink eyes.
Time for #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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First one for February - Thysania agrippina (The White Witch). I really like the underside wings that is totally different in colour (dark iridescent blue; not shown). 💙 #moth #teamMoth mothing with @dinalab.bsky.social
Thysania agrippina (The White Witch). Top view: White and dark brown hues of mosaic design, left lower wing slightly torn. Pink eyes.
Time for #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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First one for February - Thysania agrippina (The White Witch). I really like the underside wings that is totally different in colour (dark iridescent blue; not shown). 💙 #moth #teamMoth
My first contribution to #YearOfTheMoth
White Witch (Thysania agrippina)
Merian documented this moth 300 years ago, but actually got some features wrong! Despite it being the WIDEST INSECT ON EARTH, we don't know its host plant or eggs, and only verified its larva last year! I updated her drawing!
If you want to play along, all you have to do is make cool art themed about the #moth of the week! It starts off next week with the WHITE WITCH!
Create #poems, #games, #sculptures, #paintings, #proceduralart or whatever you want! Give it #YearOfTheMoth and we can help celebrate whatever you make!
Ooh, I don't know how many I'll have time to draw but I'd love to see more moths this year! #yearofthemoth
