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Pyrausta volupialis
Gorgeous pink moth with a snout nose and white zig-zag, stripe and spots on the wings.
Shaded dirt under Dragonfruit cactus in backyard. Range is "from Texas west to southern California spreading northward to San Fransisco, Colorado " - BugGuide
Volupia is Latin for pleasant. "The Crambidae are the grass moth family of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). They are quite variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae (grass moths) taking up closely folded postures on grass-stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies include brightly coloured and patterned insects which rest in wing-spread attitudes. In many classifications, the Crambidae have been treated as a subfamily of the Pyralidae or snout-moths. The principal difference is a structure in the ears called the praecinctorium, which joins two tympanic membranes in the Crambidae, and is absent from the Pyralidae." - Wikipedia
Spotted on Jun 12, 2012
Submitted on Jun 13, 2012
9 Comments
Absolutely! Done :)
Cindy, could you add this to my mission, Moths of the Americas?
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8841...
Thanks!
Cindy. i would'nt under estimate these critters.
Look how the praying MAntis has hearing better than humans! That too with only one ear. Also such great vision.
i have a feeling that these moth must be having a sharp sense of smell and vision.
Everytime I visit Heather farm gardens , a swallow tail which I photographed recently, always shows up from somewhere. As though it recognizes me.
These insects have much more going for them then we humans know!! My gut feeling.
Cool...beautiful colour.
It was a lovely find! Glad I didn't step on this beauty. Oddly enough, they favor plants in the mint family. Last year, we had catnip in this very spot but it died out months ago. Could it could smell it in the soil?
what a pleasant pink!!
lovely!
Hi Atul, thank you! I've reordered the series.
lovely moth Cindy , i feel the last pic would make a better main pic :-)