A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Pyrausta volupialis
Gorgeous pink moth with a snout nose and white marking on the wings. Volupia is Latin for the word pleasant.
Backyard on a rock in late afternoon. The range is "from Texas west to southern California spreading northward to San Fransisco, Colorado." - Wikipedia
Their main food source is plants of the mint family. "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. The latest review by Munroe & Solis, in Kristensen (1999) retains the Crambidae as a full family." - Wikipedia
Spotted on Dec 31, 2011
Submitted on Dec 31, 2011
4 Comments
It's a privilege! Thank YOU :)
Thanks so much!!! I hope you don't mind me adding this photo as the Mission's icon!!!
Hi jgorneau, I added about 30 spottings to your Moths of Planet Earth mission. I also added some info where I could. Enjoy :)
Amazing!! If you find more information on it, I will put this as the mission's icon for a week!