#ghost moth

[every-day-creechur]

Aenetus scripta

A moth found in southwestern Australia. The hindwings are blue in males and yellow in females.

image by dashtwostep

[moth-daily-official]

Moth #20

Todays moth is the ghost moth!!!

The name comes from the males who are completely white but the females have these beautiful patterns as you can see in the picture!!! They live in places like england scotland and wales!! they are fairly common and their wingspan can get up to 70 mm!!! They also have very short antenna and no working mouth parts!!! and the males have a swaying flight display to attract females!!! The caterpillars kinda look like beetle grub and they eat roots of grasses and other various nettles!!

[tuatara-time]

More bugs!! pepetuna (pūriri moth), huhu beetle, and pupurangi (kauri snail)

These will be available as stickers at Wellington Armageddon 2026, so come say hi!

[sashasylvaart]

Moth girlfriends!

Reblogs super appreciated

[drhoz]

#2303 - Wiseana cervinata - Pasture Porina

AKA Elhamma cervinata, Hepialus despectus, Porina vexata, and Pielus variolaris.

A Hepialid endemic to New Zealand, where it was first described by Francis Walker in 1865. I'm not sure how many of those scientific names above are the result of him describing the same species more than once. He became notorious for that.

These are both males - females have indistinct markings at best. A common moth in grassy areas around New Zealand, where the caterpillars devour clover and grass, and may have been a pest of kūmara when sweet potato was more intensively grown as a staple crop.

Horopito, North Island Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

[onenicebugperday]

Forest splendid ghost moth, Aenetus eximia, Hepialidae

Found from southern Queensland to Tasmania

Photos 1-3 by vicfazio3, 4-6 by dhfischer, 7-9 by leighfhopper, and 10 by ethanbeaver

[vampireamon]

I just want a ghost that looks like a moth. Yes my hunter has a ghost named moth.

[dailycreatures]

Creature 90

Thysania agrippina

Also known as the White witch or Ghost moth, these guys will spawn anywhere between Uruguay and Mexico. This species larval stages have never actually been documented, so now a bunch of scientists are out there trying to do exactly that. Ghost moths have an impressively large wingspan, one Brazilian specimen has a span of just under 12 inches.

fact and image source: wikipedia