Sunday, March 30, 2008

Big Moth


These are the things that you seen when your are doing vegetation surveys in the tropics. Things that your eye will totally miss if you are just walking through the forest. The blessings of doing "veg work" that compensate for the myriad of sweat bees lapping up your salts and crawling all over your body in the process. Mind control.

Can you believe that camouflage?! If you squint, you can barely see it. The container of nature is like giant spherical mirror that contains smaller mirrors, impersonators of the larger, flitting around within it. The more that they appear like the larger mirror, the higher tendency they have to pass their continuum of adapted energy onwards. The energy is never lost.

This Ghost Moth, was so big, that I was startled when it flew from the tree--even after I touched it! It flew like a leaf would fall and then quickly flip itself up onto the surface of another tree. So fast, that if you looked away for a moment you would miss it.

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