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Old lady moth

Dasypodia selenophora

Photo by MartinL
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Field Notes

Description:

Here is a colorful ocellus of a brown moth. This common moth is often trapped in window sills in sheds and found later, dead. This specimen was very alive and flew away during the photo session.

Habitat:

Trapped inside the house.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (14)
HemaShah
we started with alphabets ending up with numbers and next i guess would be punctuation marks.Comma.Question mark etc etc. Very interesting indeed...... Thank you for sharing.
MartinL
And there's a number '11' in your image. You are well on your way...
HemaShah
Maybe you can start a mission on Alphabets and numbers on butterfly.
HemaShah
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/43875009 Here is one which we could say has the letter "O" and number 6.
HemaShah
amazing link and great idea too! It would be quite a task though to capture all the alphabets!!
MartinL
This image spells a 'c' Have you seen the whole butterfly wing alphabet? http://io9.com/the-entire-alphabet-photographed-on-butterfly-wings-1465806707 http://www.psfk.com/2013/11/butterfly-wing-alphabet.html#!ytniX
MartinL
thanks Mark, same routine with this one. thanks kd, the carpet weavers in Pakistan would be inspired. thanks Pam
kdpicturemaker
Beautiful photos martinl. Looks almost woven as in a cape.
Mark Ridgway
We've put so many back out only to find them inside again later. Maybe they should be called death-wish moths.
MartinL
Thanks Sergio. We know birds see colors so it probably would scare them.

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PublishedMarch 2, 2014

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