This Monday’s moth is a duo ofSchinia viUosa (滑动) 搁在什么我假设是他们的寄主植物 (Erigeron SP。). 我身边拍下了这张拍摄 9,000 脚的凯巴布高原北亚利桑那上个月. A fire must have burned the area a few years ago because the wildflowers were thick amongst charred remains of ponderosa pines and these moths were everywhere.
上周吉姆·海登猜到我张贴的蛾是澳大利亚Oecophoridae. 这是一个很好的猜测,因为有这么多的大,令人惊叹的飞蛾在这个家庭来自澳大利亚. 其中最好必须是这一个, Tweet'y lambertella (卵藻科), 在堪培拉十月抓获黑山 23, 1955 (CAS收藏). The larvae feed onEucalyptus – and I for one wish this was an introduced species here. We have these pesky invasive trees everywhere, why not the moth to go with?
这周一的蛾是一个壮观的物种来自亚利桑那州的山区 – 奇里卡瓦多齿, à尺蠖. 该物种已知的唯一地点是在该奇里卡瓦高山之上的最高层 9,000 脚 (这只是bruned一个清脆). Hopefully the fire was not entirely devastating and the population will rebound in the years to come. 前 2009 this moth was known from fewer than 10 标本, all captured at the slightly lower elevation on Onion Saddle in the Chiricahuas. In the spring of 2009 access to a gated road lead to the collection of dozens of specimens in a single night. All of the previous records had been rare strays that had flown down to 8500′ – but the simple act of driving up an extra1000′ 500’put the collector in the ideal habitat and surprisingly this moth was common! This seems to be par for the course with most insects, very few are actually rare while the rest are just difficult to capture. Either they don’t come to lights, don’t forage within arm’s length, or only live in hard to access habitats. Once you discover their biology (or get lucky) you usually can find the animal in abundance.
You might have also noticed the regular posting of Monday Moth – I’ve been out in the field for the last two weeks and had a stack of scheduled posts. I should start mixing things up more now!