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rattyexplores · 1 year

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Don’t mind me

Unidentified, Scopula genus

08/06/22

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chlorophyll-and-chitin · 9 months

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Acacia cognata with inchworm

05-SEP-2022

Melbourne, Vic

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laurelnose · 4 months

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I wondered why every time I see a cool moth it seems to be a geometer so I looked it up and uh. There are 23,000 described species of geometer moth?? So the cool ones always being geometrids checks out statistically I guess?? Man. I don’t know how lepidopteran taxonomists do it but that is Too Many. Twenty Three Thousands is too many species for a single family. That’s bonkers. Have y’all considered maybe elevating some of those subfamilies to families.

#the species distribution in Geometroidea is HYSTERICAL #there’s like ~700 uraniids 30 sematurids 30 epicopeiids 2 pseudobistonids #and TWENTY THREE FUCKING THOUSAND GEOMETRIDS #THAT’S LIKE THIRTEEN FUCKING PERCENT OF ALL OF LEPIDOPTERA #WHAT IS THIS!!!!!#im going to give everyone the benefit of the doubt and assume the phylogenetics are robust bc i don’t care enough to look it up #even so... man. no. that’s too many. it’s Too Many #ONE PERCENT OF ALL SPECIES OF EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ARE IN FAMILY GEOMETRIDAE #laurelnose.txt

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moths-daily · 8 months

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hi! just letting you know, i think you may have made a mistake on the Mania Lunus post, they are from the family Sematuridae, which are usually considered to be Geometroidea, not Saturniidae

You are absolutely right, thank you for pointing it out! I believe our brain mixed up sematuridae with saturniidae.

#[non motd]#[motd asks]

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thiccydriftyy · 21 days

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MOTH ROUNDUP!

Superfamily Bombycoidea!

Thatcher Davis- Luna Moth (Actias Luna) Family Saturniidae

Ruth Weaver- Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea Polytheumus) Family Saturniidae

Adam Murray- Io Moth (Automeris Io) Family Saturniidae

N- Bog Buck Moth (Hemileuca Maia Menyanthevora) Family Saturniidae

Gabriel- Death’s Head Hawkmoth (Acherontia Lachesis) Family Sphingidae

Superfamily Noctuoidea!

The Intruder/Six- Black Rustic Moth (Aporophyla Nigra) Family Noctuidae

Mark Heathcliff- Hebrew Character Moth (Orthosia Gothica) Family Noctuidae

Sarah Heathcliff- Transparent Quaker Moth (Orthosia Transparens) Family Noctuidae

Evelin Miller- Beautiful Wood Nymph Moth (Eudryas Grata) Family Noctuidae

Dave Lee- Devil’s eye moth/Demon Eye (Erebus Ephesperis) Family Noctuidae

The Preacher- Clymeme Moth (Haploa Clymeme) Family Erebidae

Cesar Torres- Cinnabar Moth (Tyria Jacobaeae) Family Erebidae

Superfamily Zygaenoidea!

Jonah Marshall- Southern Flannel Moth (Megalopyge Opercularis) Family Megalopygidae

Mervin Marshall- Black-Waved Flannel Moth (Megalopyge Crispata) Family Megalopygidae

Superfamily Geometroidea!

Lynn Murray- Swallow-tailed Moth (Ourapteryx sambucaria) Family Geometridae

Verity Okawa- False Tiger Moth (Dysphania Militaris) Family Geometridae

Superfamily Pyraloidea!

Jude Murray- Greater Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella) Family Pyralidae

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imagek · 3 months

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Postcard - Unrefuting Longicone Geometroidea, Ack Opengl, Classy gradient, unclear and dotted multicolor patterns

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animalids · 3 years

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Piggy face moth (Comostola laesaria)

Photo by Steve & Alison1

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dendroica · 5 years

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Red-bordered Emerald, Nemoria lixaria (by me)

#Red-bordered Emerald #Nemoria lixaria #Nemoria #Nemoriini #Geometrinae #Geometridae #Geometroidea #Lepidoptera #Insecta #Hexapoda #Arthropoda #insects #moth #summer #Dallenbach Lake #Middlesex County #New Jersey #mine

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toddjdreyer · 7 years

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Trying something different with this Two-sided Moth Project.

Pleuroprucha insulsaria / Common Tan Wave (7132)

#pleuroprucha insulsaria #common tan wave #geometroidea #geometridae #sterrhinae #cosymbiini #moth #lepidoptera #insect #new jersey #middlesex county #two sided moth project #dorsal #ventral #photographers on tumblr #original photographers

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onenicebugperday · 3 years

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Swallowtail moths in the family Uraniidae, Geometroidea

1. Urania Swallowtail by David Reed

2. Lyssa menoetius by wyattherp

3. Madagascan sunset moth by jnicolas

4. Epiplema fulvilinea by ivijayanand

5. Acropteris rectinervata by flyingswallow123

6. Green-banded urania by eduardoquispesalcedo

7. Strophidia caudata by gancw1

8. North Queensland day moth by paluma

9. Tropical swallowtail moth by jacky2

10. Europlema desistaria by ivijayanand

#animals #insects #bugs #moth #swallowtail moth #urania swallowtail #green banded urania #madagascan sunset moth #north queensland day moth #tropical swallowtail moth #one nice bug

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xcherry-popx · 3 years

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:0 a moth if your up for it?

your icon reminds me of pink and yellow moths such as:

the primrose moth (Schinia florida),

chickweed geometer (Haematopis grataria)

and the pink prominent moth (Hyperpax aurora)

but you blog feels similar to moths such as:

the brimstone moth (Opisthograptis luteolata),

black-veined yellow moth (Siona lineata),

or pink-striped oakworm moth (Anisota virginiensis).

for some reason, even though i think of pale colors with you, a lot of the moths that remind me of you are saturated in color? lots of pink and yellows too. i wonder why.

there are 44 families of moths, split into 23 superfamilies!

the moths listed are distributed among 3 superfamilies! the noctuoidea superfamily (primrose: noctuidae family, pink prominent: notodontidae family) holds 52,000 species in its 8 families, geometroidea superfamily (chickweed geometer, brimstone moth, and black-veined yellow moth, all in the geometridae family) holding almost 22,000 species in two families [21,000 of which belong to the geometridae family], and the bombycoidea superfamily (pink-striped oakworm: saturniidae family) which holds 3,400 species in its three families.

all in all, there are believed to be approximetly 160,000 species of lepidoptera (many of which are currently undescribed!) with moths being most of them and butterflies supplying the rest.

there are actually few practical differences between moths and butterflies: while traditionally we say butterflies are diurnal, have clubbed antenna, colorful wings held up a certain way, as we discover more and more lepidoptera it becomes clear things arenʻt that simple. you could say butterfly features are just traits that certain moths adopt, some to greater extent than others. its a manmade category, not a natural one.

sources:

https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Schinia-florida

https://livingwithinsects.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/chickweed-geometer/

http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=8022

http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/whiteknightsbiodiversity/campus-species-lists/animals/insecta-insects/lepidoptera-moths/moth-gallery/1906-brimstone-moth/

https://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Andes%20-%20Pachydota%20nervosa.htm

https://bugguide.net/node/view/1578866

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rattyexplores · 1 year

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Another caterpillar on Poinciana; Different species

Copying the stem mimicry from the Poinciana loopers.

Unidentified, tribe Boarmiini

Foodplant: “Flamboyant / Poinciana” Delonix regia

05/06/22

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mjustice02-blog · 7 years

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Inch Worm

(pic - https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjS7ISXr4jTAhVMMyYKHVL7AM8QjhwIBQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dw9rBK5akmJI&bvm=bv.151325232,d.eWE&psig=AFQjCNE6z5CsI9_F_MmvoGD361bnw3-2Aw&ust=1491311648041536 )

We all know what this is, well most of us should. Its an inchworm, or a soon to be geometer moth, Geometridae. An inchworm is just the larvae of a moth it will soon grow to be. they are around an inch long (obviously!) and are green, they only have a few legs instead of hundreds like a caterpillar

Taxonomy:

Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Hexapoda Class Insecta Order Lepidoptera Superfamily Geometroidea Family Geometridae

Here’s an exploding inchworm (dont worry this wont really happen)

Their main habitat is the same as their food source: the foliage of woody shrubs and trees. Most of all inch worms eat some variety of fruits, leaves or vegetable matter, but the cankerworm feeds on the fruit and foliage of a variety of trees including apple, oak and sweetgum. An inchworm's life span is generally a year, but the timing of his development depends on whether he's a spring worm or a fall worm. The fall inchworm emerges from his pupa in late fall. If the emerging moth is female, she'll walk up a tree and wait for a winged male to mate with. After mating, she'll lay her eggs, often around small tree branches, which will hatch in mid-spring.

Fun Fact:

Inchworms actually have an exercise called the inchworm named after them.

well something like that

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dendroica · 6 years

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Chickweed Geometer, Haematopis grataria (by me)

#Chickweed Geometer #Haematopis grataria #Haematopis #Timandrini #Sterrhinae #Geometridae #Geometroidea #Lepidoptera #Insecta #Hexapoda #Arthropoda #moth #insects #summer #Ayres Beach #Highland Park #Middlesex County #New Jersey #mine

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