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8 Comments

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Hi Amrita... Delete second picture and upload it in separate plant spotting.

ChunXingWong
ChunXingWong 12 years ago

Moths find their mate by smelling their pheromones.
One of my guest is that the moth above have similar smell as it's species fooling it to mate with it.
Another guest is that the moth mate with the wrong one instead of the right one nearby.

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 12 years ago

Wow. How utterly bizarre. Cool spotting! By the way, the flower should be a separate spotting.

ChunXingWong
ChunXingWong 12 years ago

2 completely different species of moth mating!
Moreover 2 days!
This is interesting.
By the way the black one is a wasp moth or handmaiden moth.

amrita.sarup
amrita.sarup 12 years ago

I think they were mating. Weird but beautiful. They stayed like that for two days! The black one had a transparent design on it's wings - could see the floor right through it!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Interesting... Latimeria...have you comment here..?

rubens.luciano
rubens.luciano 12 years ago

What is going on here ?

IanMichaelIleto
IanMichaelIleto 12 years ago

Are these two different species mating?

amrita.sarup
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amrita.sarup

Tamil Nadu, India

Spotted on Aug 26, 2011
Submitted on Aug 26, 2011

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