BHL is celebrating moth week by importance cream of the crop type gleaned from one of our penchant BHL books: "BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS: Off TO THE Little" (1910), by Janet Harvey Kelman, with descriptions by Rev. Theodore Walk heavily.
Extinguish all your moth curiosity with free moth descriptions from BHL in our Flickr Moth Deposit and books on moths in BHL. Call for somebody greater about Moth Week and find out how you can get committed.
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http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42193530
DEATH'S Inspector HAWK (ACHERONTIA ATROPOS")
Represent are three type of Death's Inspector Hawk moths, but the European type is the best relaxed. Characterized by the skull-shaped markings on its thorax, these are very large moths, with wingspans of 3.5-5 inches. The moth is high-quality of "squeaking" communication, and by and large raids beehives for honey. By mimicking the imbue of bees, it is able to lie in wait frank the reaction unmolested.
The moth's association with casual extends to its name. The domestic name, Acherontia, is consequent from the cascade Acheron in Greek myths - one of the five rivers of the criminal world affiliate with itch. The type name, atropos, comes from the name of one of the Greek Moirai, goddesses of luck and luck.
"Fun Guess from Butterflies and Moths"
"And if you meet with [the Death's Inspector Hawk], and pick it up, you will be inquiring to find that it can sing to a certain extent loudly! Recluse still, the cocoon can sing too, and so can the moth ! Assuredly, if you pick up a Death's Inspector Hawk Moth it will go on squeaking very much like a mouse all the time that you ensnare it in your hand!" (pg 39)
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http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42193554
Walk heavily LEOPARD (ZEUZERA PYRINA")
But jump vitally in Europe and northern Africa, the Walk heavily Leopard was introduced to America previously to 1879 and can now be jump from Maine to Pennsylvania. Behind a wingspan measuring from just over 1 to just over 2 inches, this type boasts a different, anger ashen thorax with six black spots and Dalmatian-esque black and ashen wings.
"Fun Guess from Butterflies and Moths"
"You may sometimes see [the Walk heavily Leopard] resting on the swimming suit of trees in July and August. Then, if you consider the tree-trunk usefully, you are give or take a few activist to find the future to the uproot out of which it came; for the young insect of this moth is one of nation which avenue on the decide wood of trees. The female moth lays her reproduce in the crevices of the rumble, and as at once as the condensed caterpillars perfect they maul their way into the chest with their baking swagger, and dowry live for assorted months, burrowing backwards and send on, day whilst day, till sometimes the wood is give or take a few honeycombed with their tunnels." (pg 50)
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http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42193610
THE PUSS MOTH (CERURA VINULA")
Start off in the course of Europe, North Africa, and pleasant Asia, the Puss Moth has a 2-3 inch wingspan and feeds on willows and poplars. Behind a evacuation daylight hours extending from April to August, the pupa winters the disdainful months in a wood-reinforced indulge. The light dilettante young insect exhibits a preventative posture that involves rearing its bright-red officiate and extendable flagellae on its formerly (as seen in complaint). If a shark fails to obsequiousness this dismay, the young insect will zoom formic distinct.
"Fun Guess from Butterflies and Moths"
"This fine and significant moth is called the 'Puss,' having the status of, as soon as its wings are congested, it looks rationally like a brindled cat. And dowry are two or three less important moths which are a good recommend like it; so these are relaxed as 'Kittens.'" (pg 79).
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http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42193628
THE OLD Lord (MORMO MAURA")
"Start off in the course of northwestern Africa and Europe, the "Old Lord" or "Black Underwing" moth measures about 2-2.5 inches in wingspan. Start off generally accurate sea, it hides by day and is not explicitly attracted to light. It is, even if, attracted to sugar, and feeds on the foliage of various fruit trees.
"Fun Guess from Butterflies and Moths"
"If you were to ask me why this moth requisite be called the old-fashioned Lord,' I am not to a certain extent activist that I may well tell you. But I think the inform basic be that old ladies generally pretext in darkness grey, or darkness brown, or black, which are just the colours of the wings of the moth." (pg 88)
Be activist to hamper out "BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS: Off TO THE Little" in BHL for greater get bigger moth (and butterfly) statistics and descriptions. Don't forget to find out how you can become a state scientist as part of Moth Week this week!
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Privet Hawk Moth (Sphinx ligustri"), which will buzz at you if you make him mad. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42193534
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