pretty micro

NikonUser · Post by **NikonUser** » Wed Oct 09, 2019 1:44 pm

In the Lepidopterists's world anything that isn't a butterfly is a moth; anything that isn't a macromoth is a micro.
Micros are made for macro photography!
In light trap, am 9x19

Nikon D7200, MF 105mm macro, f/8, Zerene PMax

BugEZ · Post by **BugEZ** » Wed Oct 09, 2019 6:49 pm

Thanks for posting!

I presume the coloration is camouflage?

This is quite ornate. Much more so than the small moths that fly up from my lawn in late summer when I mow. Often a flycatcher perches in the trees and swoops down and picks them off. An adaptation to suburbia.

Keith

NikonUser · Post by **NikonUser** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:36 am

Thanks Keith
Those small grass moths are Crambids, maybe not ornate but have 'mean' faces with long noses and many with beautiful wings with pure gold and pure silver scaling:
http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.e ... h&state=IL

BugEZ · Post by **BugEZ** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 6:53 am

Interesting. I will do some sweep netting above the lawn this afternoon and look more closely. Cooler weather and rain arrive this evening.

K

MarkSturtevant · Post by **MarkSturtevant** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:34 pm

Very nice. It looks like a 'punk' moth.

ChrisR · Post by **ChrisR** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 4:45 am

Those two fit together on A4 very nicely and will soon be on the classroom wall

Is this one of the "hard to identify without dissection" micros?

NikonUser · Post by **NikonUser** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 7:42 am

Yes.
This is one of the several Acleris spp. here in the NE NA.
It is a female Acleris busckana, dissection on BG:

https://bugguide.net/node/view/1740887

pretty micro

pretty micro

difficult ?