#agarista

[ljsbugblog]

probably one of the nicest looking moths I've found yet, Joseph's Coat Moth! I'm back from a trip to the northern tropics, and the wildlife did not disappoint.

Joseph's Coat Moth (Agarista agricola).

[butterfly-and-moth-species]

Agarista agricola

Agarista agricola - Joseph's coat moth

Family: Noctuidae

[drhoz]

#1502 - Agarista agricola - Joseph’s Coat Moth

Found by Kerry Gardeniers in the town of 1770 in Queensland.

Joseph’s Coat moths are remarkably colourful Noctuids native to Papua and north and eastern Australia, where they eat various plants in the grape family. They start off with mostly black and white bands, as in the photo by Phil Mcintyre below, and switch to entirely orange and black as they get older. 

When they’re ready to build a cocoon they spend hours chewing up small pieces of bark as camouflage, as they build the cocoon along a branch.

Then they emerge as this. 

[pookabagi]

in modern times the two girlfriends start up a band called 'my immortals'!  other immortals may or may not join them in the future.   they suck but they don't have to rely on it for food so they don't really care.