Hummingbird #HawkMoth! At the Crinum Lily!
#MothCallOut https://video.infosec.exchange/w/xf7x6jZCCxBpGwb4Siot27

Hawkmoth v0.21.0 is out.

Hawkmoth is a Sphinx extension to incorporate formatted C and C++ source code comments written in
reStructuredText into Sphinx based documentation.

v0.21.0 has improved support for documenting function pointer typedefs, fixes issues in looking up parsed results, and enables REUSE compliance.

https://jnikula.github.io/hawkmoth/stable/

Hawkmoth v0.20 is out!

Hawkmoth is a Sphinx extension to import C and C++ documentation comments into Sphinx based documentation.

The main new feature in this release is automatic configuration of the system header search paths. Unfortunately, libclang does not get them right out of the box on most distros, so we have to help it a little.

#Sphinx #Hawkmoth #Documentation #reStructuredText #C

https://github.com/jnikula/hawkmoth

Elephant Hawkmoth (Deilephila elpenor)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephant_Hawkmoth_(Deilephila_elpenor)_-_H%C3%A5,_Norway_2021-08-09.jpg

Yesterday, I saw a hawk moth lying on the ground and thought it died a natural death sadly. But then this morning, when I went to the same place I saw a very similar looking hawk moth perching on the wall. Can it be the same one? Maybe it hit its head or something, got unconscious, and came round later? #hawkmoth #moth

Garden visitor (UK). It's the first time I've seen this enormous caterpillar.
Elephant hawkmoth. Deilephila elpenor. Apparently.
(Thanks to iNaturalist and friends.)
#moths #caterpillars #Hawkmoth

I went for a walk yesterday in Zeeland and saw LOTS of caterpillars on the road at a certain point. Luckily there was little to no car traffic there. Most were black with spikes, those will become peacock butterflies (Aglais io, dagpauwoog). But I also saw a HUGE green one of the hawk-moth (Agrius convolvuli, windepijlstaart). Apparently those are rare in NL.

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It’s National Moth Week, July 20-28, to celebrate the beauty, lifecycles and habitat of moths, so I’m reposting my eclipse of moths (the delightful term of venery for a group of moths) and also for my #InsertAnInvert2024 wildcard week.

This hand-printed lino block print shows 5 of the noctural moths of Ontario in front of the moon at a lunar eclipse. The 5 moths are: the gorgeous green Luna moth (Actias luna), 1/

Flying lobster sighting!

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/230111950

We went for a little walk on our nearby trail the other evening. I don't know how I spotted this little dude but I'm glad I did! I haven't seen a hummingbird moth in years! So cute

More moths later but after a mild night the first Poplar Hawk Moth of 2024 has appeared. I adore these gentle giants with their cute fuzzy faces.
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#moth #moths #entomology #hawkmoth #lepidoptera #nature #wildlife #garden #insect #cute #conservation #MothsMatter #alttext

As a wild card post before we head into crustacean month for #InsertAnInvert2024 -an animal jokingly known as the flying shrimp! My #linocut hummingbird clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe) seeking pollen from cherry blossoms! The olive-headed burgundy moth has transparent wings (though colour can be variable). It beats its wings rapidly to hover above flowers, like a hummingbird, meaning it is often confused with a hummingbird or bee.

#Scientists describe #NewSpecies related to famous Darwin's orchid https://phys.org/news/2024-03-scientists-orchid-species-famous-darwin.html

A new #orchid species expands #Darwin’s predicted pollination guild in #Madagascar https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)00012-5

"Solenangis impraedicta has the third longest spur ever recorded among flowering #plants, and the longest nectar spur of any known plant relative to flower size. It is the only new orchid species with such an extreme adaptation to #hawkmoth #pollination described since 1965."

Lime Hawkmoth (Mimas tiliae)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lime_Hawkmoth_(Mimas_tiliae)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-06-01_(01).jpg