Today's #MothOfTheDay is two for the price of one. A female (left) and male (right)

FOUR-SPOTTED FOOTMAN
Lithosia quadra

Larvae feed on lichen. Only the females have spots which only show three as the the fourth is hidden by overlapping wings.

A lone Vapourer Moth in Hide 1 at RSPB Belfast Window On Wildlife.

#nature #wildlife #invertebrate #insect #lepidiptera #moth #VapourerMoth #silentsunday @RSPB

This Luna Moth caterpillar we found recently was on the move, looking for a place to cocoon for the winter. It is the spinning of a cocoon out of silk that has Luna Moths referred to as giant silkworm moths. #insects #moth #nature #naturephotography #Ontario #Canada https://frametoframe.ca/luna-moth-caterpillar-on-the-move/

Twenty-plume Moth (Alucita hexadactyla)

Morning-glory Plume Moth (Emmelina monodactyla)

Mystery moth: silvery, small (~3 mm), and with a cat face on its wing pattern.
The iNat ID model has no idea of what it is.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/308242013
#iNaturalist #Lepidoptera #CatFaceOnThings #moth

This strange football-sized thing in a tree had me scratch my head. The name of the moth whose larvae built it even more so: Ugly-nest Caterpillar Moth (Archips cerasivorana).
Eggs overwinter on Chokecherry trees, in the spring the emerging caterpillars wrap silk around bunches of leaves and enlarge the nest as they grow. Whole trees can be covered.
On close inspection, it is a piece of art.

discovered a #moth species I'd never heard of before: Lorquin's Atlas Moth. they have very unusually shaped forewings with snake head mimicry. native to the Philippines.

(image credit: Project Noah)

#MothOfTheDay isn't a bold, colourful one. It's a monochromatic carpet of dark grey and white. But quite a nice example of its type:

KNOT GRASS
Acronicta rumicis

Larvae feed on pretty much anything. One of the 'dagger' moths, so closely related to Grey/Dark Dagger, one of my favourites

Today's #MothOfTheDay might be a bit déja-vu. I showcased this a while back from a first brood but it was a fading specimen, and this second brood specimen is much brighter, and needed showing to the world!

CAMPION
Sideridis rivularis

Larvae feed on, yes, you guessed it, Campion

#MothOfTheDay is one of the Thorn moths, the autumnal leaf mimic that is

LUNAR THORN
Selenia lunularia

Quite common in extreme SE UK, but quite scarce elsewhere. Larvae feed on oak, birch, privet and damson.

Two in the moth box last night.

A lovely little Twenty-Plume Moth on the window of my flats this morning.

A Red Underwing moth visited today.

A stunning creature. Never seen a moth looking like a splash of butterfly.

#Moth
#Devon

Oh hello, don't mind me just hanging out here.
Eilema griseola

#MothOfTheDay is a tiny but pretty micromoth.

Carcina quercana
(Long-horned, flat body)

As the 'quercana' name obviously suggests, its larvae feed on oak. It is common and widespread in the UK.

Back in New Mexico for a couple weeks. Here's a nursing bighorn sheep, a rufous hummingbird, a sphinx moth gathering nectar, and a still life with Big Milly the millipede, named to contrast with a beetle my kid called Little Billy a couple weeks ago.
#NaturePhotography #moth #hummingbird #millipede #NewMexico

Highlights from a moth trap at Bath City Farm
Privet Hawkmoth
Small Elephant Hawkmoth
Lesser Swallow Prominent
Iron Prominent
#Bath #Somerset #UK #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #insect #ukwildlife #moth #ukmoths #teammoth

#MothOfTheDay is another from the Prominent family

IRON PROMINENT
Notodonta dromedarius

As I was re-positioning it onto my finger for 2nd overhead picture, this one excreted a lymph excretion which some do when feeling threatened. A warning to me not to harm it. Photo taken, he promptly flew away.