Behold the beautiful coziness of my morning

But now everyone is invested. Today we hit week 9 with the slide below. My plan for week 10 is to simply replace the slide entirely with the picture.
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The caterpillars, as you might expect, are *voracious* eaters, since they have to build sufficient fat stores for the adult to survive on. One butterfly garden that said they have to keep the Atlas cats in a separate place or they would have no garden left. They grow up to 12" and look like this
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Some trivia for you all today. This is the Atlas moth, one of the largest moths in the world (possibly the largest). They can have a wingspan of up to 27cm. They live in forests in Southern and Eastern Asia. They are absolutely harmless and super cool.
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The lingering impression I had on this read through is that Persuasion is by far the most unabashedly romantic of all Austen's novels. Much as I love Pride and Prejudice and the rest, none of them can really compare with this
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I can honestly say I've never regretted spending money on art. That goes double for every picture I've ever commissioned of one of my pets, and triple for this absolutely perfect illustration from @hannahbstudios.bsky.social of my charismatic poltergeist, Vlad