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@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-08-19 13:00:40

"The 20-year search for a vanishing custard-and-chocolate coloured moth"
#Moth #Insects

The 20-year search for a vanishing custard-and-chocolate coloured moth
Yorkshire common was thought to be the only known site of dark bordered beauty moths in England – until now

@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-14 00:06:47

few nights ago, we went graveyarding in the dead of night, and a Magpie moth flew into our torch beams and onto a fallen gravestone.
#moth #graveYard

a moth white with black and yellow speckles, underwings half showing, in torchlight, on a slate gravestone in between two rows of carved letters. the gravestone has cracked.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
2026-06-12 17:29:07

Hot on the heels of the cinnabar moth we saw recently, we now have a scarlet tiger moth in our garage. #moths #UKNature

A black moth with red, yellow and white markings sits on a white man's hand.
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2026-06-03 19:37:49

Happy pride moth, everyone!
Image by @… via bluesky
#pride #moth #pridemonth

An assortment of Lepidoptera matching the colors of various Pride flags.
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-15 18:48:12

#crow #moth

a crow with eye missing on top of a grassy rock. couple of other crows behind grass either side
a ragged winged brown moth on a black canvas trainer. wings fanned open.
@shaun@mastodon.xyz
2026-06-10 13:58:38

A very vividly colored #lichen #moth, #Hypoprepia miniata or fucosa, right where its name suggests it should be.
#insects

An orange moth with six thick black stripes that run the length of its body, front to back. It’s walking on some lichen that’s growing on a dead tree branch. The poor moth looks like it has some wing damage. Memphis, Tennessee, June 10, 2026
An orange moth with six thick black stripes that run the length of its body, front to back. It’s walking around near the broken end of a dead tree branch after exploring some lichen growing nearby. The poor moth looks like it has some wing damage. Memphis, Tennessee, June 10, 2026
@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-08-06 01:14:42

My wife says that thing that looks like a hummingbird is actually a hummingbird moth!
#photo #photography #insects #moth

Five cylindrical pink flowers being fed on by a moth and a hummingbird moth
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks
2026-07-18 11:49:03

National Moth Week is July 18-26. Anyone going to a mothing event? Sugaring some trees in your back yard?? Got a blacklight??? #NationalMothWeek #MothWeek #moths #mothing #inaturalist #insects #lepidoptera #nature

@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks
2026-06-07 15:54:47

We need more articles in nature and conservation magazines about the evils of bug zappers. Americans still think they work and seem to be OK with the billions of innocent insects that are killed each year. Moth people, I'm looking at you. #BugZappers #moths #lepidoptera #insects #mothing #entomology

@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks
2026-06-07 16:23:19

Did you know that bug zappers can be defanged and used to attract moths? I don't know how to do it safely but perhaps somebody can chime in. Proof of concept is on this webpage about a moth night event in Vermont. #MothNight #mothing #blacklight #blacklighting #moths #UV #insects #lepidoptera #inaturalist val.vtecostudies.org/newsfeed/