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#moths

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Bob Nicholls Art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A whisper at twilight" shows an eclipse of moths migrating across the North Sea.

#Art#Painting#PaleoArt
Jon Sullivan
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Check out Aotearoa's five-finger looper moth, Xyridacma alectoraria. It's a big, elegant, yellow moth with a fringe of *hot pink*.

This one came into my home moth light in January, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, and I uploaded it to #iNaturalist today.

My best guess for why it looks like this is that the older leaves of its host plant, five-finger, often turn yellow before they fall. I'm not sure why the hot pink works (but it does).

inaturalist.nz/observations/26

A cropped close-up of the head a yellow moth with a line of hot pink along the front edge of the wing and across the forehead, and orange mouth parts.
A face on photo of a yellow moth with a line of hot pink along the front edge of the wing and across the forehead.
A photo of a yellow moth with a few pale spots on the wings. The front fringe of the wing is lined with a thin strip of hot pink.
#mothodon#moths#nz
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hastingsmothman
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More Common Quakers (pic 1) and Clouded Drabs (pic 2), but first sighting in 2025 of an Early Thorn, one of the leaf-mimic moths. Not as bright and colourful as some of the thorn moths in the height of summer but nice to see one nonetheless (pics 3 & 4). See how the light affects its colouration. 3 & 4 are the same moth.

A small 1cm narrow arrowhead moth on a finger. It is a chestnut brown with two cream edged stigmata on each wing, one ovoid and one reniform. A cream line which rises to a hump in the middle runs towards the bottom from left wing edge to right.
A side on shot of a 1.4cm moth on the back of a hand. It faces left. It is largely iron grey with hints of chestnut red-brown
A moth that resembles a butterfly with its wings held closed and upright over its abdomen grips the underside of a table. Its overall shape is scalene triangle. Its back wing edge is scalloped. The underside of the wing is showing as it holds them closed and upright. They are a mix of browns and greys with a distinct gold patch near the front.
The same aforementioned moth in straw. Its colour is more distinguishable in the light and appears to have three vertical bands down its wing. The colours blend from grey, olive and brown with a dark brown vertical stripe near the front and a distinct gold patch.
#moths#MothsMatter#nature
Harry Rutherford
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Pretty good moths last night. One new species, Small Brindled Beauty. One which is probably new but might need dissecting to be certain — I think it's either Caloptilia elongella or C. betulicola, either of which would be new for the garden. And I've thrown in a pic of a Dotted Chestnut bc it's pretty.
#moths #TeamMoth #VC17 #ukmoths

Photo of a Small Brindled Beauty, a mottled brown moth with roughly triangular wings, a very hairy body and feathery antennae. This specimen has one damaged wing.
A Caloptilia moth with a cigar-shaped body held upright at 45 degrees, with its two front legs supporting it like a tripod. The wings are reddish-brown with some darker markings.
A Dotted Chestnut moth. It has golden brown wings covered with many small black dots.
hastingsmothman
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Milder night last night so chanced the #moth box. Still early in the year so very few species / numbers yet (roll on May/June). More Common Quakers (x4) & Early Grey (x1). Also first sighting in 2025 of Oak Beauty and Small Quaker. Moths on my finger today are...

1) Oak Beauty (top left)
2) Small Quaker (top right)
3) Common Quaker (BL)
4) Early Grey (BR)

A medium-sized 3cm triangular moth perched on a finger. Three distinct horizontal bands of chestnut, white and chestnut again separated by jagged black lines. It has a furry head and a creamy yellow furry abdomen. It has large feathered antennae which it is curling underneath itself. It looks very freshly emerged.
A small 1cm rather plain, peppery light brown moth on a finger. It has a sandy brown furry head and two faint stigmata on each wing, one orbital, one reniform.
A 1.5cm narrow arrow-head shaped moth on a finger. It is a sandy, gingery-brown colour. It looks freshly emerged. It has a diamond shaped furry head. Its wings are gingery brown with two stigmata on each wing, one orbital, one reniform. Near the bottom of each wing is a horizontal, thin wavy line of brown which separates the ginger brown wing above with a lighter brown segment below it. Thus, resembling a hem or a fringe. The hem is also peppered with a row of faint black dots running uniformly from wing edge to wing edge.
A small 1.5cam narrow arrow-head shaped moth on a finger tip. It is much like the Common Quaker before in shape and size but is silvery-grey flecked with flashes of black. Two grey stigmata on each wing, one orbital and one reniform. It has two thin pipe-cleaner like antennae which stretch out horizontally either side of its head.
#moths#MothsMatter#MothsAndButterflies
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Antiroo 🔞
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The Death's-head Hawkmoth (or Acherontia Styx) is iconic. In antiquity, moths and butterflies were said to represent a person's soul. Today they often represent rebirth, and cycles of life and death. In this design I've tried to incorporate some of those themes with the inclusion of a Latin language riddle (also known as an Aenigma).

#bugstodon#hawkmoth#moths
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