Landscape‐scale native woodland habitat restoration using natural tree regeneration provides a biodiversity boost for moths in the uplands https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2688-8319.70136 This research shows that protection and expansion of mature pinewoods is important for moths and that landscape-scale habitat restoration using natural tree regeneration is a powerful tool to diversify and increase the abundance of moth communities in the uplands
@LateNite I once had my favourite sweater eaten by moths. After cleaning, I closed the holes by #VisibleMending which is easier because everybody can do it without knowing techniques. I used coloured silk patches and "wild" #embroidery ... and even embroidered some #moths flying between the holes. 😁
Twenty-plume Moth (Alucita hexadactyla)
#Moth #Lepidoptera #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Moths #Insect #Insects #InsectPhotography #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #PicOfTheDay #PhotoOfTheDay #Photo #Photography
Day 22 #artAdventCalendar my bee (and other pollinator) propaganda I made for Manufactured Ecosystems. Thinking about the future of pollination and seeking solutions from technological and nature-based knowledge. This is essentially my conclusion: we can aid our beleaguered pollinators with technology but their continued success is vital. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #typography #insects #entomology #ecology #pollinators #nativeBees #butterflies #moths #manufacturedEcosystems #mastoArt
@Niall Yes, exactly. It’s crazy. Most NZ moths are almost cookie cutter consistent with their colours and markings yet a few are wildly variable. Two other notably variable common moths are the dark banded carpet moth, *Hydriomena deltoidata*, with all sorts and different patterns in dark and tan brown, and the New Zealand Looper *Epyaxa rosearia*, which is sometimes green and sometimes banded brown with different patterns.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=6803&taxon_id=390771
https://inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=6803&taxon_id=320914
Here's my favourite moth find of the past week, which we saw at Hinewai Reserve over the hill from Akaroa, NZ. It's *Declana floccosa* which is quite variable in it's colours and patterns. This is the first one I've seen speckled with bright orange spots.
When I posted it on #iNaturalist, squidney8 posted a link of the local lichen, *Brigantiaea chrysosticta*, which also is grey with orange spots.
This colour morph of *Declana floccosa* would blend in incredibly well when on a *Brigantiaea chrysosticta*. Still, is it aware enough of its colour morph to known which background to sit on?
moth: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/330659205
lichen: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/55779194
Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐
Climate Jenny 2.1
Petra van Cronenburg
Ryan Hodnett
Ele Willoughby, PhD
Jon Sullivan
Caeslin
