Arched Hooktip - Drepana arcuata (Drepanidae)
MD, USA
2024-05-08
#teammoth

The oak hook-tip, Watsonalla binaria, is flying now. Have you seen any?
#oakhooktip #watsonallabinaria #eksikelvinge #drepanidae #mothsmatter #ZweipunktSichelflügler #insectphotography #naturephotography

Daily biodiversity: The peach blossom, Thyatira batis, fläckig hallonspinnare

#Thyatirabatis #Drepanidae #fläckighallonmätare #Thepeachblossom #biodiversity #dailybiodiversity #biologiskmångfald #bjärenatur #naturephotography #insectphotography #tg6 #INaturalist

Time for the yellow horned moth, Achlya flavicornis
#drepanidae #moth #theyellowhorned #björkgulhornspinnare #earlyfliers #marchmoth #Inaturalist #bjärebiodiversity #insectphotography #mothphotography #naturephotography #achlyaflavicornis #lepidoptera #mothphoto #nattfjäril

Hooktip Moth (Microblepsis leucosticta, Drepaninae, Drepanidae)
Pu'er, Yunnan, China 📷
#invertebrate #naturalist

Drepanidae: Cilix glaucata (Scopoli) Chinese Character. A specialist on Rosaceous species: thorns, crabs, brambles, pear and rowan.
📷 By Gail Hampshire, CC BY 2.0

A nice selection of #moth firsts for the year last night (West Dorset, VC9) including Magpie, Barred Yellow, Beautiful Hook-tip and a single migrant Rush Veneer.
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Rosen-Eulenspinner (Thyatira batis)
#hexapodezember
#Drepanidae

Hooktip Moths (Callidrepana sp., Drepaninae, Drepanidae)
(female above, male below)
Pu'er, Yunnan, China 📷
#naturalist #invertebrate

#Drepanidae caterpillars defending the leaves they’re eating and being measured with lasers? Yes. Newborn Falcaria bilineata scares rivals off leaf tips with loud sounds. I like to think it's the struggle move from Pokemon.

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#entomology #Invertebrate #science 🧪

A Drepanidae moth or hitotsume-kagiba (Auzata superba). This moth aspires to be a bird poop. Actually, there are many insects that try to look like excrement. Tokikubo, Komoro, Nagano#Invertebrate #Insects
ヒトツメカギバ。長野県小諸市鴇久保 #虫

Hooktip Moth (Paralbara perhamata or muscularia, Drepanidae)
Pu'er, Yunnan, China 📷
#invertebrate #naturalist

I am continually amazed by moths; their variety & appearance. This is the beautiful Lettered Habrosyne Moth (Habrosyne scripta), common & endemic to the NW & NE regions of N. America. Its larvae are partial to raspberries. NE US June 2023.

#moths #lepidoptera #LetteredHabrosyne #Drepanidae #nature

A mariposa pertence à espécie Macrocilix maia (família Drepanidae), sendo encontrada no Leste e no Sudeste da Ásia.

"Flies-On-Bird-Poop" Moths (Macrocilix maia, Drepaninae, Drepanidae)
Assuming bird dropping mimicry (an adaption adopted by many Drepanid moths), the concept has been elaborated on further as a pair of red-eyed flies standing around a bird dropping.
Pu'er, Yunnan, China

i have seen a couple of these this spring. don't think i'd noticed them before, they're really cool-lookin'

Falcaria bilineata, the two-lined hooktip moth, is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Packard in 1864. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Newfoundland to New Jersey, west to Oregon and north to British Columbia. The habitat consists of deciduous woodlands

Rose Hooktip Moth

Oreta rosea, the Rose Hooktip Moth, is a moth in the Drepanidae family. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded across boreal Canada to eastern North America. In the north, the range extends to northern Alberta, northern Manitoba and Nfld