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Twirling Cosmet Moth

Cosmopterigidae

Description:

About 5 - 6 mm long. 2 bended antenna's over the head backwards.

Notes:

Small moth turning around and around on a leaf. Than stop and stand upright on the head for several minutes before start turning like crazy again making small circles on a leaf. Sorry for the not so clarity picture

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4 Comments

flowntheloop
flowntheloop 6 years ago

Wonderful shot!

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 6 years ago

Hi KitchilPus! Fascinating spotting and great description!!

As per our guidelines please only use the Scientific name field for genus and species if known. Other levels of taxonomy can be added to your notes or description. I have edited the spotting accordingly for you. You can also tick the Help with ID box if you wish. With this the spotting will appear as Unidentified, and is more likely to be noticed by users and specialists browsing the site to help with IDs.

KitchilPus
KitchilPus 6 years ago

Thanks Melinda,really strange and funny to see them busy,found already few times before but never succeed to make some proper images.

MelindaKiser
MelindaKiser 6 years ago

That is fascinating. I'm amazed. SO COOL~!

KitchilPus
Spotted by
KitchilPus

Dumaguete, Central Visayas, Philippines

Spotted on Jul 15, 2017
Submitted on Jul 18, 2017

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