Plume Nachtfalter

Diese Fahne Motte am Tor hatte eine Flügelspannweite von etwa einen Zentimeter, was etwa so groß wie ich jemals hier gesehen wird.



Als ich ein Kind war, habe ich sie zu nennen ", Flugzeug Motten", weil das, was sie erinnerte mich an.

Pancake Moth...?

Ich habe keine Ahnung, was dieses kleine weiße Motte ist, es gibt so viele Motten, die ähnlich wie diese aussehen, sind sie für mich fast unmöglich, das eine vom anderen zu unterscheiden. Diese, auf einem Blatt im Holz war abgeflacht, hat er sich nicht bewegen. Es war fast, als ob er sagte: "Wenn ich real lag still, sie wird mich nicht sehen, nope nope nope" an die Augen zu schauen, sehr Goggle-like.

Von der Form dieses kleine Motte ich sagen, es ist in der Familie Geometridae mit den anderen Geometer Motten ..... aber ich konnte es völlig falsch zu ..... Pancake Motte ist es wollte, war er flacher als eine, die für die sicher.

Dark fence wood camouflage moth

If I hadn't seen it land on the fence....


I would have never known it was there at all.

The same and more of the same

Yet another in my seemingly endless series of porch moths.


It sort of looks like some of the other moths I've seen and photographed, but I'm pretty sure it's a little different.



And some crane flies on a date. I actually made a video of a female crane fly digging in the ground to lay her eggs, and I tried but for some technological reason, it wouldn't upload. You can see it here on Flickr. While you're at it, why not look at my sphinx caterpillar video too.


My experimental caterpillar grew up just fine. It is now in a chrysalis, in a small enclosure at the arboretum, hopefully to eclose during our big plant show and sale this weekend.

Other "experiments" have not fared as well. A pair of tiny ground mantid nymphs that I brought home from the desert died after they failed to eat any of the tiny insects I provided for them. I tried aphids, ants, and "grass plankton", a mix of minute critters I netted up from our lawn. I wonder what they would be eating in the desert.

Also, the lovely green caterpillar I found last month died while we were on vacation. It had burrowed under the soil, but then it just shriveled up.

Clearwing Butterfly

Picture by : insects.org
Credit : insects.org
Common name : Clearwing Butterfly
Scientific name : Oleria spp.
Order name : Lepidoptera
Family name : Ithomiidae

Discription : These ethereal and delicate tropical forest butterflies are often lured out of their seclusion by the chemicals found in dried Heliotropes. Their wings lack the usual dense covering of scales that give other butterflies their distinct coloration. This transparency renders these clearwing butterflies elusive as they appear and disappear in the dense forest undergrowth. After observing these butterflies, it is easy to see how numerous butterfly wings adorn the backs of fairies.