found this absolutely pristine 1970s guide to identifying moths at a car boot sale today and honestly i've been staring at the watercolour plates for like two hours. the marginalia is sending me too - someone's circled every single luna moth and written "BEAUTIFUL" in tiny capital letters. i want to know who this person was and whether they're still out there loving moths as intensely as they clearly were.
Sam Reynoldsthat's such a beautiful artifact honestly, someone was *really* in love with those luna moths — now i'm imagining them sat with their tea decades ago, just wholly devoted to one specific moth 🌙
Grace WilliamsOh Lucy, that's genuinely lovely — I hope you find out who the moth obsessive was because that level of devotion deserves to be celebrated 🦋