Just a den for my likes

I have interviews with a few companies but until I get the job I'm gonna try to get up like $200 to cover my rent fully because im short

If you would like a comm please DM me! I'm doing a colored rough sketch commissions: $30 for a fullbody / a bust and headshot combo / or 3 headshots +$5 if you want rough shading (like to the whole comm)

I WILL draw: furries (feral and anthro), original monsters/creatures, humanoids (Object Heads, etc.), mildly graphic body horror (DM for specifics), and mild mechanization. 

I WILL NOT draw: humans, mechs, heavily graphic gore

I will begin working on them on the 1st at the soonest

Examples below the cut:

アリタケ

Cordyceps (Ophiocordyceps satoi)

Sosxetra grata

Yes, this colorful furry creature is a moth! And one of the most stylish out of the cutworm moths and allies family (Noctuidae) - at least in my opinion!

Found in Latin America with sightings from Mexico all the way down to Rio Grande Do Sol

Previously thought to be monotypic (meaning its the only species in its genus) but some new research proposes a few species within its genus

Described by Francis Walker, hence the name Walker's Moth

Despite looking fuzzy, moth's wings are actually comprised of scales, and in this case, Walker's Moth's fur-like scales help with insulation to maintain temperature

MYSTERY CATERPILLAR OF THE AMAZON!

family Sphingidae, Manu Biological Station, Peru

Apparently, for years, the identity of this caterpillar has been a mystery. We may be very close to solving the mystery!

People have seen this large gorgeous caterpillar for ages, but have never been able to figure out what it grows/metamorphoses into... what species is it?

Entomologist Gwen Erdosh (Gwentomologist), currently the Volunteer Coordinator at the Manu Biological Station in Madre de Dios, Peru, has collected one, determined its host plant, and got it to pupate!

Luckily, I got to meet the larva before it pupated, and snap a few photos.

Hopefully, we will know soon, and the mystery will be solved!

THE MYSTERY HAS BEEN SOLVED!!!

The mystery caterpillar of the Amazon has been identified!

Gwen Erdosh has successfully raised the caterpillar, and it has fully metamorphosed.

We knew that it was a Sphinx Moth, family Sphingidae, but no on seemed to know what species it was.

This gorgeous caterpillar is the larva of Manduca neglecta!

photographs by Gwen Erdosh (Gwentomologist)

Have a look at some of the ID process on Inaturalist.

I'D NEVER SEEN A SCALED PIGEON BEFORE. this thing rules so much

First: THIS RECALL IS NOT STATE SPECIFIC. IT IS NATIONWIDE.

here are the specific products and dates:

FDA page on this:

Butterfly of the day Arachnis picta