Locusta

Born on a Supermoon, but also a Pink Moon. This is also the first of three Supermoons for 2021. The Moon will be near its closest approach to the Earth and may look slightly larger and brighter than usual.

This full moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Pink Moon because it marked the appearance of the moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the first spring flowers. This moon has also been known as the Sprouting Grass Moon, the Growing Moon, and the Egg Moon. Many coastal tribes called it the Fish Moon because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.

Locusta or Lucusta (died 69), was a notorious maker of poisons in the 1st-century Roman Empire, active in the final two reigns of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. She supposedly took part in the assassinations of Claudius and Britannicus. She was a favourite of emperor Nero for several years, and Nero had her provide training to other poisoners in his service. Following Nero's death, Locusta was executed by his successor, Galba (reigned 68–69).

---

Locusta served as a poisons expert under empress Agrippina the Younger. According to some historians, in AD 54, already notorious and imprisoned on poisoning charges, Locusta was ordered by the empress Agrippina the Younger to supply a poison for the murder of her husband, Claudius. This was sprinkled on a mushroom and given to the emperor by his food-taster Halotus; when this poison appeared to be ineffectual, the doctor Gaius Stertinius Xenophon murdered Claudius with a poisoned feather ostensibly put down his throat to induce vomiting.[3]

---

Locusta was one of the characters depicted in the historical film Humanity Through the Ages (1908) by director Georges Méliès.[11] The film was an episodic depiction of humanity's brutality throughout its history,[12] and the historic episodes depicted were chosen because they involved fratricide, murders, religious persecution, physical abuse and public humiliation, prisons and executions of prisoners, torture, and violent criminal subcultures.[11] The film is thought to be among the lost films from its era.[13]
(anyone else find irony that a film about the Humanity of Man is about all the terrible things that humans do to each other...? Anyone?)

• SW: swallowtail buttersnake = 25 nymphs +40 stonewatch flatblade
• SW: colorburst buttersnake = 35 algaestrider + 20 true rainbow trout
• BB: anomalous skink = 10 juvenile prairie skink + 5 weird purple skink
• BB: conjoined skink = 10 green throated skink + 5 weird purple skink
• BB: amberwing wave skimmer = 12 cinnamon + 5 royal oyster
• BB: great blue waveskimmer = 12 green shoots + 5 olympia oyster
• BB: iron golem = 3 pickaxe
• BB: rusty golem = 3 rusty pickaxe
• BB: anomalous nekomata = 8 eye agate
• BB: irregular nekomata = 8 foo's eye
• SW: maned cobra = 90 onyx cobras + 90 maned cobras
• SW: glossy duskrat = 175 duskrats
• Black-winged Hummingbird = 175 white-eared hummingbird
• SW: lakelight weaver = 25 fossilized fish + 25 skein of silky yarn
• SW: bellus glamourtail = 30 deepwater constructor + 30 bluefin charger fin
• SW: ashen bicorn whale = 25 antique oil lamp + 10 barnacle-encrusted relic
• SW: skycrest bicorn whale = 25 white-gold cerdae pendant + 25 giant kelp
• SW: cinderkelp loach = 25 flametail loach + 25 fire starter
• SW: tendril loach = 25 buespot weather loach + 25 glowing pocket bauble
• maple caterpillar = 25 maple leaf + 25 leopard caterpillar
• SW: cherry blossom caterpillar = 25 Sakura moss + 25 noxious caterpillar
• SW: harvest floracat = 20 carnaval tulip + 40 fire flower
• SW: snowfall floracat = 40 ice crystal + 30 ice tundra