Sighting 4379475
Stathmopoda megathyma
A concealer moth at Melba, ACT
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| Stathmopoda megathyma | donhe | 23 Apr 2021 | |
| Stathmopoda megathyma | ibaird | 23 Apr 2021 | |
| Unverified | Bron | 22 Apr 2021 |
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10 comments
23 Apr 2021
Love the Ostrich pose. Or did you put some honey on the cloth for it to lick?
I had to pop a copy into
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/stat/megathyma.html
Thanks,
Don
I had to pop a copy into
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/stat/megathyma.html
Thanks,
Don
23 Apr 2021
Hi Don I confess to never having heard of the ostrich pose, and I didn't know about the honey either! I'll pop over to butterflyhouse and have a look. Cheers Bron
23 Apr 2021
See
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/ostrich-head-sand-silhouettes-logo-icon-1439620193
for traditional (probably fictional) response of an ostrich to trouble, while hoping the trouble will go away. The pose is often mentioned metaphorically as the response of incompetent politicians to social problems, as well as a challenging yoga position.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/ostrich-head-sand-silhouettes-logo-icon-1439620193
for traditional (probably fictional) response of an ostrich to trouble, while hoping the trouble will go away. The pose is often mentioned metaphorically as the response of incompetent politicians to social problems, as well as a challenging yoga position.
23 Apr 2021
And the there is the 'head-in-the-sand' posture of the current Austrcalia government re fossil fuels.
23 Apr 2021
Moths with a haustellum traditionally sip nectar (dilute honey) from flowers, such as moths in the superfamilies GEOMETROIDEA, NOCTUOIDEA, PYRALOIDEA, and also SPHINGIDAE.
However: moths in the families ANTHELIDAE, BOMBYCIDAE, COSSIDAE, EUPTEROTIDAE, HEPIALIDAE, LASIOCAMPIDAE, LIMACODIDAE, LYONETIIDAE, NOTODONTIDAE, PSYCHIDAE, SATURNIIDAE, and TINEIDAE have no haustellum.
However: moths in the families ANTHELIDAE, BOMBYCIDAE, COSSIDAE, EUPTEROTIDAE, HEPIALIDAE, LASIOCAMPIDAE, LIMACODIDAE, LYONETIIDAE, NOTODONTIDAE, PSYCHIDAE, SATURNIIDAE, and TINEIDAE have no haustellum.
24 Apr 2021
There are some funny images on this page if you google "head-in-the-sand' posture:-
https://www.google.com/search?q=head-in-the-sand%27+posture&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU728AU728&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=-U74-A3Yx6vKxM%252CEYQuK78gm1oa1M%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQAlIJZXYx1tnRiuRjZSYlO-gaVhQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2gfCzzZXwAhWbfn0KHcuKAjEQ9QF6BAgPEAE&biw=1257&bih=1338
https://www.google.com/search?q=head-in-the-sand%27+posture&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU728AU728&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=-U74-A3Yx6vKxM%252CEYQuK78gm1oa1M%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQAlIJZXYx1tnRiuRjZSYlO-gaVhQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2gfCzzZXwAhWbfn0KHcuKAjEQ9QF6BAgPEAE&biw=1257&bih=1338
24 Apr 2021
Meanwhile, a common way of capturing butterflies is to paint a mixture of honey and beer on a tree trunk, and then the drunken butterflies are easier to catch. Men and women use a similar technique to capture the opposite sex.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.052978-35.208827
- Places Melba, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 21 Jan 2021 11:12 AM Recorded on
- Bron Recorded by
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
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- Insects Moths (Lepidoptera) Curved-horn moths (all Gelechioidea except Oecophoridae) Bron Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Stathmopoda megathyma
Species information
- Stathmopoda megathyma Scientific name
- A concealer moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 619.5m Recorded at altitude
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