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Bagworm Moth
Unidentified Psychidae
15.4561, 119.921
Field Notes
Description:
As I have said in previous spottings of Bagworms, I know very little about these strange little creatures. What I should really be saying is that I do know something about their life cycle (because I read it in Wikipedia and Philippine Lepidoptera every time I post a spotting featuring one), but this minuscule amount of knowledge does nothing to help me when it comes to identifying a Bagworm. That is because there is so little solid information available. So, there I was this afternoon in my backyard with my camera hoping to see something nice and easy for a Project Noah spotting and what did I see? Not one, but two bagworms! At first I thought I needed new spectacles, but no, I really was looking at two of these "difficult to identify" Bagworms. Maybe they should be classified as Cognoscere perdifficilis :-)
Habitat:
These two Bagworm Moths were spotted on a trellis supporting string beans in the vegetable plot in our backyard.
Notes:
The first picture shows a bagworm on the left, still moving around and the one on the right, which seems to have already affixed itself to the bamboo trellis. I had no intention of taking any more photos because when it comes to bagworms, all the pictures would look the same and we wouldn't even see the moths inside the bags. However, I noticed a little ant heading in the direction of the bagworm on the left. So I thought I would include it. Then the third picture is simply a less cropped version of the first picture to show something of the trellis and the leaves of the string beans, in other words, a glimpse of the habitat.
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