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[darchildre]

Today, I got a bug in the mail.



It's an absolutely gorgeous preserved leopard moth that I bought from Scenic City Oddities on etsy and I'm exceedingly pleased with it. (I covet basically all of the insect displays - and some of the other taxidermy - in that shop and had a terrible time narrowing my selection down.) The moth by itself is beautiful and I love the contrast between it and the red plants behind it. The rest of the display is real preserved plants, and there is a wee snail and a ladybug in there as well. It's so pretty!


And here it is prominently on display in my bedroom, with a few other pieces of my slowly growing curiosity collection. (The other bits are a possum skull, a mole paw, a vial of snake ribs, a tigers eye and a hemlock cone.)

The nicest thing about starting your own natural history collection is that you get to make your own decisions about whether or not you can touch things. Moths are very interesting to (carefully) touch.

Comments

[katherine]

What a lovely little thing!

The teeths on that skull.

[darchildre]

The angle of the pictures makes the objects look a bit bigger than they are (the moth cloche is only about 4.5 inches tall) but yeah, Virginia possums have extremely impressive teeth. (And so many! More than any other mammal in North America - why do you need so many teeth, possums?)