Dog Eat Doug by Brian Anderson for August 06, 2023

or how small humans can be

“Check out the monarchs. They come in ‘king-size’.”

They are limited by the physics of gas exchange. Like most carbon based life forms, they need to absorb O2 and expel CO2. Their surface area is covered in spiracles for this purpose. The surface area must be sufficient to maintain oxygenation throughout the body mass.

Mothra?

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I’d pay to see a butterfly rodeo.

Not that big.

Wouldn’t it be cool if they did get a lot bigger?

Not big enough…unfortunately.

Not big enough for your daydream, Doug.

Unknown to most, Mothra had an Uber side gig.

Maybe some Jefferson Airplane? ♫One pill makes you bigger, one pill makes you small…♫

New movie coming out, How to Train Your Butterfly.

Looks like a: “purple emperor, a butterfly that loves the tops of oak-woods”

Lovely!

Show them either Mothra or Avatar.

Hmm. The clearer one (panel 4) seems to be a recolored Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. In the next panel, looks like a recolored Julia. …There are real-life purple butterflies (such as the Purple Emperor a.k.a. Japanese Emperor), but they’re not native to North America. Or the Tiger Swallowtail in its natural colors (striking yellow and black) would’ve been nice to see, since they’re native. Oh, well, that’s just me being fussy as a butterfly lover.