Wandering Adventure Party

For my first “real” post I’d like to share this absolutely INCREDIBLE moth I found on campus a few days back. This is *Cosmosoma myrodora*, the Scarlet Bodied Wasp Moth. This striking moth is native to the southeastern US and is named because its appearance is believed to be mimicry of wasps— If I had to guess, likely a Polistidae species. This moth is a tiger moth (Arctiini) in the family Erebidae, much like the Salt Marsh Moth (*Estigmine acrea*) that is also native to Galveston, though I don’t think anyone is at high risk of confusing the two as they look very different. *C. myrodora* larva feed on *Mikania* genus plants called hempvines. Unless I’m mistaken, there’s an absolutely massive hempvine by the parking lot on campus. Maybe I’ll pop over there and see if I can find some larvae or pupae.Sources: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/217647-Cosmosoma-myrodorahttps://www.lsuagcenter.com/~/media/system/3/f/5/c/3f5cfb9d3e2ea5c70320e1f7b390218b/3740%20scarlet%20bodied%20wasp%20mothpdf.pdfhttps://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN996#insect #insects #moth #moths #nature #bugs #photo #texas #scicomm #entomology

Reposted #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. Originally from #Chicago. Lived in Birmingham, UK & Hefei (Anhui province) #China. I do research in English lexical semantics, #pragmatics, health communication, and discourse markers, using corpus methods. Currently learning #Arabic on #DuoLingo. I edit #Wikipedia. I love contemporary fiction, science fiction, and #poetry. And #travel—as the budget allows. Loved my academic Twitter network. Great meeting you all!

I'd be one of those patents to write a permission note saying "whatever #book my kid wants" and then be lynched because this is #texas. No book is a bad book. I mean hell I was reading novels with steamy parts of maidens being bedded, when I was like 10. Didn't understand it. But was reading it. #books #censorship #education Texas school districts update library policies under new state law https://share.google/PUmzgkzgccHCTVCDN