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![Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 409 W: 41 N: 784]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-s-g.gif) (2478) | Hi everyone,
I found this moth in the bushes a couple of days ago..i was quite fascinated by the way its whiskers stood straight and those pair of black eyes stood in rapt attention of the movement I caused in the bush..it was early morning and I had to use flash.
I didn’t want to scare it away and hence I had to be satisfied by this angle. With the limited capacity offered by P&S I preferred to focus on its head and the interesting features. I have however managed a shot with complete focus but not with good details. You can see that in the Workshop.
I had to resort to heavy cropping and hence, I understand, the shot lacks technical quality. Never-the-less I decided to post it because this one just looked too beautiful to be stashed away in my archives.
I am afraid I do not have the ID and would welcome your help in marking this. So I found some Moth Trivia for you…
Thanks for coming in…
Cheers :)
Moth Trivia
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- Moth wings get their colors from millions of shingle-like, overlapping scales .
- The smallest Lepidoptera are moths of the family Nepticulidae, with a wingspan of less than 2 mm (their caterpillars are very tiny also).
- In some moths the wings are mostly transparent (scales only along the wing veins) and they are mimics of wasps
- The fastest Lepidoptera are the sphinx moths. Some species have been clocked at 60 kph (37 mph). Many of these same moths are also capable of hovering in the air like a helicopter.
- The largest moths in the world are the Hercules emperor moth (Coscinocera hercules) of northern Australia and New Guinea (the females reach a wingspan of 10.5 inches with a surface area of 1002 inches) and the great owlet moth (Thysania agripinna) of South America (females measure up to 12 inches in wingspan, but lack the large surface area).
- The vampire moth of Asia has a stiff proboscis that enables them to suck juices from thick-skinned fruits, but occasionally they can be found sucking the blood from a water buffalo or deer.
- The wings of some moths are marked with patterns that look very much like letters of the alphabet, as well as numerals.
- Members of the silkworm moth family have been raised in China since 2697 BC, where the methods are silk production had been a closely guarded secret. Anyone caught removing these insects from China was executed!
- The silkworm, Bombix mori, is the only truly domesticated insect. The adult moths are so tame they can barely fly and they must be hand fed. It takes about ten pounds of mulberry leaves for silkworms to be able to manufacture 1 pound of cocoons, which can be spun into a silk thread over 100 miles long.
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References:
http://members.aol.com/yesbutrfly/facts.html
http://gosouthamerica.about.com/cs/southamerica/a/CulTrivia_2.htm |
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