Post di Mark McCaughrean

Mark McCaughrean

@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social

2 settimane fa

It has been a few days since I've posted any new arthropods – the garden remains parched & beyond bees, bottleflies, & yellowjackets, not much is happening 😬

But this pretty little moth made itself known today. It's a rosy-striped knot-horn (Oncocera semirubella) or Rhabarberzünsler in 🇩🇪 for obvious reasons 🙂

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
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A small moth seen side on with its wings folded around its body, pointing downwards along a light brown dead plant stem. The moth has large pale green eyes with a large rough grey spot in the middle, and a fuzzy pinkish "horn" with white spots that curves up over its head. The folded wings are light yellow green along the top, followed by a rhubarb pink stripe that broadens towards the rear, where there is some white glitter near the frayed ends. There is a cream white stripe along the bottom of the wings. The legs are speckled white, light brown, and pink.

The same moth seen from above and, with its long yellow and black antenna lying along its yellow-green back, curling outwards towards the halfway point down the wings. The pale green eyes and horn are again visible.

A picture from the side and above, showing the cream and speckled forelegs folded up under the moth.

Another view of the moth from the side again, showing the three coloured stripes, the eyes, and the horn clearly, as well as the legs. It is pointing upwards along a light brown stem this time.

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Mark McCaughrean

1 settimana fa

Next, a somewhat less striking grass-veneer moth, but perhaps more of a rarity.

The iNaturalist computer vision model favours Agriphila straminella or Pediasia lutella, but after careful checking around, I think it's actually a barred grass-veneer (Agriphila inquinatella; 🇩🇪 Magerrasen-Graszünsler).

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲