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Tag Archives: moths
A Moth with Really Quick Reflexes
We have had quite a number of lepidoptera out recently. We have quite an outbreak of red admirals, but others are quite common as well. A day flying moth, which I think is the celery looper, Anagrapha falcifera, is also … Continue reading
When a Moth Looks Like a Bee
Yesterday in the very warm weather after the morning rain I saw one of my favorite day-flying moths. This bumblebee mimic is a snowberry clearwing, Hemaris diffinis. Because of the high winds it kept to the low-growing dandelions.
Posted in Biological diversity, insects
Tagged bumblebee mimics, moths, Snowberry clearwing
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Autumn Moth
The arrival of autumn has slowed my ability to take closeup photographs. I have less light when I get home, and less time because I have to haul my son from football practice. I am working on getting firewood cut and split–that … Continue reading
A Small Moth With a Big Nose
I got a photograph of this small moth with a huge nose today. It shouldn’t be too hard to identify, but as always I am short of time. I will attempt it another day.
Wound Up
I took this photograph of an “exposed bird-dropping moth” today. I found the coiled up proboscis to be kind of charming. You do not see them in that position very often.
Posted in insects, invertebrates
Tagged exposed bird dropping moth, fall flowers, macro photography, moths, proboscis
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A Moth That Looks Like a …
This is called the “exposed bird dropping moth”, or Tarache aprica. It can be differentiated from the “delightful bird dropping moth”, T. delecta, because it looks a little less delightfully like a bird dropping than delecta does. They say you are … Continue reading
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Tagged bird shit, camouflage, exposed bird dropping moth, macro photography, moths, Tarache aprica
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What is That Thing?
While photographing stuff on flowers sometimes you run across something that looks completely unusual. This was on a gray-headed cone flower. This is a creature of some sort, but what is it? It looks unlike anything else I have seen. … Continue reading
Up Close and Personal
This is a common micromoth whose name I don’t know. When you look at small things closely sometimes they show a charm you might miss otherwise.
