Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

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Mothra, or Mosura, with egg. The egg is much too avian for a Lepidoptera, but otherwise…

Here’s the larval-stage caterpillar. A bit beetle-larval-ish.

And back to the adult or imago, wrestling with fellow-kaiju Godzilla, or Gojira. From Mothra vs. Godzilla, 1964. In the 1992 re-boot, the pupal stage is show as well, silk-wrapped to the National Diet Building in Tokyo.

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