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Old lady moth

Dasypodia selenophora

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.

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14 Comments

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

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
MartinL 10 years ago

And there's a number '11' in your image.
You are well on your way...

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

Maybe you can start a mission on Alphabets and numbers on butterfly.

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/438...
Here is one which we could say has the letter "O" and number 6.

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

amazing link and great idea too! It would be quite a task though to capture all the alphabets!!

MartinL
MartinL 10 years ago

This image spells a 'c'
Have you seen the whole butterfly wing alphabet?
http://io9.com/the-entire-alphabet-photo...
http://www.psfk.com/2013/11/butterfly-wi...

MartinL
MartinL 10 years ago

Thanks Hema

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

amazing as usual.

MartinL
MartinL 10 years ago

thanks Mark, same routine with this one.
thanks kd, the carpet weavers in Pakistan would be inspired.
thanks Pam

pamsai
pamsai 10 years ago

Nice...

kdpicturemaker
kdpicturemaker 10 years ago

Beautiful photos martinl. Looks almost woven as in a cape.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

We've put so many back out only to find them inside again later. Maybe they should be called death-wish moths.

MartinL
MartinL 10 years ago

Thanks Sergio. We know birds see colors so it probably would scare them.

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 10 years ago

Now, if I was a bird THAT would scary me!!!

MartinL
Spotted by
MartinL

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Mar 2, 2014
Submitted on Mar 2, 2014

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