#lepidopterids

I've been wanting to try embroidering something with a wing pattern, so here's a pine processionary moth and caterpillar (Haumetopoea pityocampa).☾⋆˚₊·𓆦∘.⍋༄࿔˚₊·.

They get their name from the behaviour of the caterpillars, which travel in a long, unbroken, single-file line. It provides protection from predators, along with their irritating, toxic hairs. They are a destructive pest to forests, but a visually beautiful insect none the less.

Who needs firework when you've got the wattle-cup moth caterpillar? Although they look celebratory, the caterpillar's bright colors and protruding, poison-tipped spikes are actually meant to ward off predators ensure that the caterpillar lives to see the new year!

I recently tried out dyeing yarn, with the lesser-used yarns I already had. I included all my dyed yarns in this project, along with some other colours (kept as-is).

The yarns that I dyed are the flecked beiges (originally cream wool and acrylic), and the darker walnut and chestnut browns (originally mauve cotton and acrylic).˚⋆˚𐐪𐑂 ❀ 𓆦 ❀ 𐐪𐑂˚⋆.

I based the designs off of different white moths and butterflies, in a more tea-stained colour palette, reminiscent of old sepia photographs.

Pretty creature for you 🤍