Installation view of Virginia L. Montgomery (VLM): Eye Moon Cocoon at Women & Their Work, Austin. Left: “Moon Moth Bed” (2023), 4K digital video, duration: 6:30; right: “Luna Belle” (2023), 4K digital ...
The Madagascan moon moth (Argema mittrei) begins life as a caterpillar, hatching from one of 100 to 150 eggs, although many of its siblings will not make it to adulthood. The caterpillar, along with ...
Virginia L. Montgomery (VLM) approaches storytelling, activism, and scientific exploration in a remarkably idiosyncratic fashion in her current solo exhibit “Eye Moon Cocoon” at Women & Their Work. A ...
Luna moths sightings are rare. The moths themselves are not so much rare as secluded, secretive and short-lived, for these are deep-woods dwelling, night-flying, short-lived moths. In New England, ...
Joseph Scheer isn’t sure when he became obsessed with moths. It may have been in the mid-1990s when he began running around with a butterfly net at Alfred University in western New York, where he is a ...