6/3/2023 0 Comments Eye Spy by Guillaume Duprat![]() This over-sized book is stuffed full of information about vision. Did this one choose the light-colored wall of our stucco house because it mistook the texture for a tree? How did the wall appear to the moth? What did it see?Īlthough I don’t know the answer, I did find an amazing picture book that attempts to show us how other animals might perceive their surroundings, Eye Spy: Wild Ways Animals See the World by Guillaume Duprat. ![]() To us, their wing colors and patterns resemble tree bark, so to be successfully camouflaged they should rest on a tree. Generally moths hide during the day and fly at night. The next thing I wonder is what the moth is doing. We had one earlier on our palo verde tree, although its wing colors were darker. ![]() It is a Royal Poinciana moth, Melipotis acontioides. What goes through your mind when you see a moth sitting on a wall?įirst, I always wonder if I know what kind it is. ![]()
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