A friend gave me a photo of an unusual insect.
It was a moth with beautiful, transparent wings of a species of tussock moth called the oriental skunk moth.
Many people think that moths are "disgusting. "The scales give me a rash..." I think many people have negative images of moths, such as "they are disgusting" or "the scales give me a rash....
Ecologically, butterflies and moths are almost the same. There are butterflies with plain patterns and beautiful moths.
I think preconceptions and prejudices determine their images.
The sense of beauty is also a sense that originally existed for survival, safe food, safe places. Safe food, safe places...those kinds of shapes and colors. It is engraved in our DNA, and in modern times, it has changed to "beautiful.
Therefore, I am sure that the unpleasantness of moths is also a function of such an aesthetic filter.
I also think that this aesthetic filter is being updated every day.
