the glint in the eye
makes it look round and lustrous,
though it’s a moth wing
Four Eyes [Haiku]
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Four Eyes [Tanka]
a bold moth sits still & confident; the eyes it adds to trees, rocks, and leaves make them mock monsters
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DAILY PHOTO: Coorgi Crawlies
DAILY PHOTO: You know you’re stuck in traffic when…
… a butterfly lands on your hand while you’re operating a scooter.
Taken in Bangalore in the spring of 2019.
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DAILY PHOTO: Butterflies of Bohol
Taken in December of 2017 on Bohol Island in the Philippines
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DAILY PHOTO: Eyespot Mimicry: or, Evolution Only Gets One So Far
Taken in January of 2014 in Bangalore, India.
I’ve seen butterflies and moths that had patterns evolved to mimic the eyes of other animals at a butterfly house in a botanical gardens, but this is the first time I’ve seen it in the wild–which is to say in the stairwell of our central Bangalore apartment building. This moth thought the perfect place to exploit its owl-like eyes and “feather pattern” would be on the white marble floor inside a building. Evolution only gets one so far.
