mokiFeb 6, 2025
ortrait of my dear friend jon @jonfrickey with a gracillariidae, a moth that forms cryptic patterns on leaves while eating

acrylic on canvasboard 48x67cm 2008

i would like to thank @abatphotos for the steady support and purchasing this painting – arigato!

#miniermotte #gracillariidae #painting #drawing #chalk #hiddenplace #hideout #cryptic #acrylicpainting #moki #mioke
Show threadDonald HobernFeb 3, 2025

@dhobern

I'm intrigued by the crazily elongate #beetle in frame 1 - no idea what that is.

Frame 2 includes at least three of the tiny #moth Dialectica scalariella (#Gracillariidae, two of them near top-left corner)

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/388556-Dialectica-scalariella

Frame 4 includes Catacometes phazona (#Oecophoridae)

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/355312-Catacometes-phanozona

Next to it is Crocanthes glycina (#Lecithoceridae)

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/472596-Crocanthes-glycina

And there are two of the Spectrotrota fimbrialis (#Pyralidae)

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/244280-Spectrotrota-fimbrialis

#Lepidoptera

Echium leaf miner (Dialectica scalariella)

The echium leaf miner (Dialectica scalariella) is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is found from France to the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and the Balkan Peninsula. Recently an imago was found in Great Britain. It was introduced in Australia for the biological control of the weed Echium plantagineum and has since spread to New Zealand. (Source: Wikipedia, '', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectica_scalariella, CC BY-SA 3.0 . Photo: (c) jkt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by jkt)

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Colin PurringtonJul 24, 2023
To kick off National Moth Week, here's my favorite find from Saturday night's mothing event at the Hatfield Township Nature Area hosted by @michaelpirrello. Pretty sure it's a walnut Caloptilia moth (Caloptilia blandella). 100% sure it's cute.
#gracillariidae #LeafMiner #moth #moths #mothtodon #mothing #lepidoptera #insects #entomology #nature #NationalMothWeek