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Did you know that the Giant Wood Moth (Endoxyla cinereus) is the heaviest known moth in the world, weighing up to 30g? It also has a significant wingspan of 23cm.

The larvae will climb to a high point and expel some silk to act as a parachute for it, in an act called ballooning. It's believed that this behaviour is high risk high reward, as many caterpillars do not survive being csrried by the wind. Those that do, however, should find themselves on various eucalyptus trees, that they use as both home and food by burrowing directly into the trunks.

They live for several years as a caterpillar, but have no mouthparts as adults and must survive as long as they can from the food reserves it as a larva.

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14 years ago when I had recently moved to Alaska, I went hiking with an Aleut friend, and she pointed to a feather lying on the ground and said "hey that's a bald eagle tail feather, you should grab it!" and I was like "uhh I'm very white and that's very illegal" and she went "they're fuckin everywhere up here man. I have 20." so she grabs it off the ground and hands it to me and says "there, now it's a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person."

and I'm like, okay, cool, I guess this is how we do things in Alaska. nice.

so I keep this bald eagle tail feather around for years. display it in my home among other cherished memorabilia from places I've lived and visited, etc.

on a whim, I have just now looked it up. there is no exemption to that law for a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person. the last 7 years I lived in the US, I was technically a bald eagle poacher.

the law against 'picking feathers up off the ground' means that you can't go shoot an eagle then sell the feathers on etsy by saying you 'just found them'. you can't own them no matter where they came from, which makes sure that they're not going to come from any birds killed and then secretly disposed of.