NAVIGATION

Hi, I'm Ascalapha, and welcome to my motharium! I'm a moth (or moth-person-thingy) and I'm building this place both for myself and for visitors to rest, explore, and hopefully experience and discover new things. I've only just started constructing, and I'm not quite sure how things are going to turn out, but I plan to put some personal writings, research, art, and other random stuff. I'm trying to make editing this site a part of my daily schedule, we'll see how that goes.

The motharium is basically just an insectarium, but for moths, which you may remember I am. I want to make this site like a little personal ecosystem and village for others to visit. I guess my main goal with this place is to put my own interests and experiences out to the world in the hope to help others (so cliche right?) and myself in some way or another. I'm always open to hear feedback, ideas, resource suggestions, and any other comments in my neocities replies. So feel free to reach out, especially for any issues of accessibility.

My name is from the moth species Ascalapha odorata, also known as the "black witch." They are native all the way from the Southern U.S. to Brazil, and have primarily brown and purple wings ranging in apperance from muddy to quite vivid depending on the lighting, with spots and lines of black and white, and occasionally accented with hues of blue.

Like many other moths, there is folklore of them being a bad omen, particularly a sign of an upcoming death. Moths though are misunderstood and beautiful insects that deserve a much better reputation than they have. If you see a moth in your home, please leave it alone or better let it outside instead of killing it! The very vast majority of moth species are not pests, and are likely native to your ecosystem.