Lines of living geometry provide sufficient pause to discover, instead of a butterfly,
two of a kind of hoop-skirted moth: Chalcoela iphitalis, the sooty-winged chalcoela,
whose caterpillars hatch in paper wasp nests, feed on the host wasp’s larvae,
occupy then vacant cells for their own metamorphosis, and emerge to resume the circle all over.
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July 25, 2017 at 2:32 pm
I always look for moth on my window and door screens early in the morning. Often finding really cool ones like rosy maple moth and every once in a while a luna moth….fascinating creatures.
July 26, 2017 at 9:52 am
Very cool — I’d love to discover one of those some morning!
July 19, 2017 at 11:18 am
Love those up close shots of little critters!
Jan
July 19, 2017 at 8:53 pm
Me too — what wonders they reveal!