Takaisin tauolla ja takaisin Genius of Press hyönteisten uutiset-vika sarja! Tuore pois puristimet viime vuodesta, Department for Environment, Ruoka ja Maaseutuviraston Britanniassa suljettiin massiivinen tartuntoja vaatteita koit. Kuva näkyy täällä “Nation” story is a far cry from a proper clothes moth (Tineidae) – looks like a Noctuidae of some kind.
But it’s hard to blame them for getting this moth wrong when UK pest control companies don’t even know what a clothes moth is. Here is Instakil’s version / “the moth” that happens to be a Plusiinae noctuid.
And the winner for failed identification goes to this other UK company “Hawk Force“. Not even a moth – but a skipper butterfly!