#types of moths

[velbsy]

Big ol moth on me door hehe

If google isn’t lying to me, this guy is an Io Moth!

Closest pic I could find ^^ they’re so pretty! The one on the left looks the most like the one I found on my door. So fluffy !!

[namesetc]

moth names part 1

because. list source (x)

an / ann - annulet

antler

apple

argent

ash - ashworth

arch / arche - arches

bar - barb - barber - barberry

barred

beau - beauty

belle

belt

bird

blair

blood

blot - blotch / blotche - blotchy

blox - bloxworth

blu / blue / bleu

bord - border

box

bri / bry - bright / brite - brighton

brown

brim - brimstone

brin / bryn - brind - brindle

braud - broad

bee / bea

buff - buffy

bur / burr - burn / byrn / byrne - burnet / burnett / burnette

brass

button

blush

car - carpet

cher / cherr - cheri / cherry

canary

case

chalk

chestnut

chim - chime - chimney

choco - chocolate

cin / cinn - cinna - cinnabar

cis - cist - cistus

clan - clance - clancy

clif - clifden

cloa - cloak

clou - cloud

cream

crims - crimson

cur / curr - currant

clear

clove - clover

dark

death

dec - dece - deca - deco - decem / decemb - december

dew - dewick

dingy

dot / dott

drab

drink - drinker

dusk - dusker - dusky

dag - dagger

ermine

em - emer - emera - ermeral - emerald

eye

earl - early

el / ele / elle - elephant

em - emp - emper - emperor

es / ess / esse - essex

es - est - estu - estua - estuar - estuari - estuarin / estuarine

egg - eggar

for - forest / forrest - forester

fea - feath - feather

fest - festoon

fier - fiery

fire

fish - fisher

five

flame

four

fox - foxglove

frost

goth - gothic - gothica

grey / gray

green

gal - gali - galia - galium

gar - gard / guard - garden - gardenia

ghost

goat

gold

grass

glory

hook

hawk - hawkmoth

heath

honey - honeycomb

haw - haworth

heart

horn - hornet

hum / humm - hummer - humming - hummingbird

jersey

july

knot

ken - kent - kenti - kentish

Lune - Luna - Lunar

leaf

line

lute - lutestring

loop - looper

lack - lackey

lace

lappet

lattice

lead

leo - leopard

lichen

lime

liquor - liquorice

moth - mothy / mothie - mothica

mocha

magpie

maid - maiden

manchester

map

mar - marble

march

mer - merv / merve - merveil / merveille

mint

mist - mistle - mistletoe

mot / mott

narrow

net / nett

north - northern

nov / nove - nova - novem / novemb - november

ora / aura - oran - orange

Pine

per / par - pareil

plume

plus - plusia

pug

pier - pierce - piercer

pearl

quake - quaker

rust - rustic

riv - rivu - rivul - rivulet / rivulette

red

shade

sable

skel - skele - skeleton - skeletonizer

stripe

straw

snout

silver - silverline

sweep - sweeper

swift

spot

speck

shell

swallow

tooth

tree

tail - tails

thor - thorn

tiger

treble

umber

vein

wing

white

wave

wane / wain - wainscot

wax

yellow