One of the prettiest moths I have seen, Crysocale regalis from Owlet Lodge in Bongará Province, Peru.
Wow, that is beautiful! I’m planning on moving to Peru (or Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, or Bolivia) in two years. One of the big reasons is the biodiversity combined with my love of macro photography! Being limited to taking pictures of frozen bugs nine months out of the year in Wyoming is getting old!
Last week I was walking through a local garden and saw this on the bottom of a tree trunk. To tell you the truth, I was just starting to bend down to pick up what I thought was a scrap of black paper before I realized it was a moth! Later I learned that it’s called the Black Zale.
For ID purposes, I pushed up the detail in the black a bit.
Got to see quite a fair bit of moths on a himalayan trek recently - and I must say, I was not expecting the high-altitude variety!!
Names along with observations (in left-right, left-right order)
- Triangles https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/365634839
- Calliteara strigata https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/365635274
- Gazalina chrysolopha https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/365635385
- Cyana adita https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/365635804
- Teldenia specca (i might be wrong) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/365635822
- Hesudra divisa https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/365634894
Which book is this?
Pretty darn good without photostacking!
Himalayan? Okay, repeat to self: I am not jealous. I am not jealous. I am not jealous. (Continue repeating until it becomes true).
Butterflies and Moths DK Handbook!
After several nights mothing, updated results!
Bird Poop: Least Carpet, I think?
Large Friend: So many Dark Arches (this obs has two!)
Gets Wifi: This Black Arches (entirely different from the above Dark Arches)
Beautiful Pattern, Probably: Either the same leafminer, or this tiny nepticulid moth
Impossible to ID: One of my small ermine moths (there’s several that look basically identical as adults)
The One with the Thing: Answer unchanged
Stuffed Toy: this Wood Leopard Moth
Dizzyingly Complex: answer unchanged
Ooh, Green: Emerald Moth (sadly unphotographed, since it didn’t settle down before fluttering off back into the night)