I’ve been seeing these small moths flying around inside at night. I see them mostly around a table lamp and the television. Where are they coming from? Could they be clothes moths? They could be, but it’s not
H. zeapopulations appear to have remained largely stable over the past 25 years when assessed using pheromone trap data; when assessed using blacklight trap data, however, they appear to have declined precipitously. This disparity is consistent with a gradual loss in light trap efficacy due to co...
The rearrangement of some species and the reduction in sample size when omitting Erebidae species, sensu Karsholt & Stadel Nielsen [81], had the result that the exact parameter values of the statistical tests changed some- what, but these minor changes did not in any way infl...
The trap lamp (Greenyellow, China, Catalog No.: GW001) was suspended at a height of 2.0 m above the ground. Once the trap lamp was turned on, the cover above the insect box was opened simultaneously to allow the insects to naturally fly to the light source. The moths flying around ...
When a new assignment brings you to the Zenith Museum of Oddities, what was supposed to be an open and shut case spirals into a complex web of deceit. Someone knows about your past, and they’ve prepared a special tribute to all your biggest cases. But what do they want, and what w...
The last of the above 3 common names reflects a food plant, Artemesia, in North America, but in Eurasia, the food may be Wild Carrot, Fennel, or Milk Parsley. The full-grown caterpillars have the same colors as the adult butterfly, and they evert an orange osmeterium from behind the ...
larvae of the family Psychidae—the larger members of which are found in America and Australia—have the curious habit of constructing cases which they carry about with them, and within which they afterwards undergo transformation. Each larva has but a single case, and when this get too narrow...
Its most conspicuous feature is the pale yellow-cream flash near the leading edge of the hindwing, that's covered when the butterfly is at rest, and used to surprise predators. 13 subspecies are known. One of them (P. h. mooreana) is quite large, with the female's wingspan being ...
they entered the arena. The duration (in seconds) spent in each volatile sector was calculated. Conspicuous behavior of the moth during the experiment was, after a visual registration by the operator, manually recorded by the aid of a wireless touchpad keyboard (model E2700, Rapoo Europe BV, ...