#leaf blotch miner moth

[onenicebugperday]

Leaf blotch miner moth, Caloptilia protiella, Gracillariidae

Photographed at Airlie Beach, Australia by Steve & Alison1

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[illicit-centipede]

Original miner moth image from

[rattyexplores]

Beautiful Macarostola moth found on the glass window of a Kmart.

24/11/23 - Macarostola sp.

QLD:WET

[alcnfr]

What I believe is the trail of a Leaf Blotch Miner Moth Larvae (Family Gracillariidae...) on a Sweet Gum Tree leaf (Liquidambar styraciflua)

[patheticmosasaur1]

my favourite moth is probably the coffee clearwing, or this leaf blotch miner moth

I forgot th credits

what is your favorite moth (or butterfly) species? :D

mine are

the Polyphemus moth and Chickweed Geometer!

both of which are native to my state ^^

[katartna]

Inktober seems fun so here’s some (very) last minute noodly doodlies of a ranger girl with her miner moth companion and a candy corn witch before I go to bed!

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

A wee leaf blotch miner moth (Acrocercops astericola) at the light at Sibley Farm a few weeks ago. I’m really glad it finally decided to stay still long enough for me to photograph it; it was hopping all over the sheet!

[bllueh]

What is your definition of “natural”? According to biology, the definition is existing in or caused by nature; not made or caused by humankind. 

Nature doesn’t follow your heteronormative definition. An example, whip tail lizards (C. inornatus, C. neomexicanus and C. tigris), are a female-only species that reproduces by producing an egg through parthenogenesis. Despite reproducing asexually, and being an all-female species, the whiptail still engages in mating behavior with other females of its own species. You want to know some more mammals that have been known to exhibit homosexual behavior? The Bison, Brown bear, Brown rat, Chimpanzee, Common dolphin, Common marmoset, Elephant, Fox, Giraffe, Goat, Koala, Lion, Orca, Panda, and Raccoon. How about some birds? Here we have Barn owl, Chicken, Common gull, Emu, House sparrow, Kestrel, King penguin, Mallard, Ostrich, Raven, Rock dove, Seagull, Swan, Turkey, and Vulture. Is that not enough? How about some fish? We’ve got the Amazon molly, Blackstripe topminnow, Bluegill sunfish, Char, Grayling, European bitterling, Green swordtail, Guiana leaffish, Houting whitefish, Jewel fish, Least darter (Microperca punctulata), Mouthbreeding fish, Southern platyfish, Ten-spined stickleback, Three-spined stickleback. But wait! I haven’t even talked about my personal favorite (y’know, working towards herpetology and all), the reptiles! There is the Anole, Bearded dragon, Blue-tailed day gecko (Phelsuma cepediana), Broad-headed skink, Checkered whiptail lizard, Chihuahuan spotted whiptail lizard, Common ameiva, Common garter snake, Cuban green anole, Desert grassland whiptail lizard, Desert tortoise, Fence lizard, Five-lined skink, Gold dust day gecko (Phelsuma laticauda), Gopher (pine) snake, Inagua curlytail lizard, Jamaican giant anole, Laredo striped whiptail lizard, Largehead anole, Mourning gecko, Plateau striped whiptail lizard, Red diamond rattlesnake, Red-tailed skink, Seychelles giant tortoise, Side-blotched lizard, Speckled rattlesnake, Water moccasin, Western rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis), Western banded gecko, and Wood turtle. But wait, there’s more! The insects and amphibians! Alfalfa weevil, Australian parasitic wasp, Bean weevil, Bedbug, Blister beetle, Blowfly, Broadwinged damselfly, Cabbage (small) white (butterfly), Checkerspot butterfly, Club-tailed dragonfly, Cockroach, Common skimmer dragonfly, Creeping water bug, Cutworm, Digger bee, Dragonfly, Eastern giant ichneumon wasp, Eucalyptus longhorned borer, Field cricket, Flour beetle, Fruit fly, Glasswing butterfly, Hypoponera opacior ant, Grape berry moth, Grape borer, Green lacewing, Hen flea, House fly, Ichneumon wasp, Japanese scarab beetle, Larch bud moth, Large milkweed bug, Large white, Long-legged fly, Mazarine blue, Mexican white (butterfly), Midge, Migratory locust, Monarch butterfly, Narrow-winged damselfly, Parsnip leaf miner, Pomace fly, Queen butterfly, Red ant, Red flour beetle, Reindeer warble fly (Hypoderma tarandi), Rose chafer(Macrodactylus subspinosus), Rove beetle, Scarab beetle, Screwworm fly, Silkworm moth, Southeastern blueberry bee, Southern green stink bug, Southern masked chafer, Southern one-year canegrub, Spreadwinged damselfly, Spruce budworm moth, Stable fly, Stag beetle, Tsetse fly, Water boatman bug, Water strider, Appalachian woodland salamander, Black-spotted frog, Mountain dusky salamander, and the Tengger desert toad.

I have more too, if you’re actually interested in animals exhibiting homosexual behavior, y’know, because it’s natural and present in nature and animal behavior. 

But Nature doesn’t agree, so stop trying to use biology as an excuse to be homophobic. What was it that you said? “It’s simply stating the cold, hard facts”? 

Same sex marriage support in the United States.

[dotterich]

Half of Europe’s endemic trees at risk

More than half of Europe’s endemic tree species – those native to Europe only – are at risk of extinction, and 15% are critically endangered, according to a new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Ash, elm, rowans and horse chestnuts are among the 454 species on the IUCN’s Red List, owing to a combination of invasive plants, pests and diseases, logging and urbanisation. Some are facing multiple threats: horse chestnuts, which are classed as “vulnerable”, are being attacked by the leaf-miner moth and the horse chestnut scale insect, as well as a fungal disease called leaf blotch and bleeding canker bacteria. Bleeding canker, which can kill a tree outright, is believed to be present in more than 50% of horse chestnuts in Britain.

David Allen, one of the report’s authors, said the threat to native trees could complicate efforts to tackle climate change: governments planning to import young trees to create new forests will need to make sure the saplings are properly screened. “We have to be very careful to ensure they don’t come with pest species,” he said.

The Week, issue 1248, October 2019

[lovelyinsects]

Leaf Blotch Miner Moths - Phyllonorycter clemensella - Hodges # 0744- 3mm Sitting on the tip of a sewing pin.

❀ Thank you so much for submitting! ❀

[onenicebugperday]

Red and yellow leaf miner moth, Macarostola miniella, Gracillariidae

Found on the North Island of New Zealand

Photos 1-7 by invertebratist and 8 (for scale) by stephen_thorpe

[astronomy-to-zoology]

Caloptilia belfragella

...is a species of leaf blotch miner moth (Gracillariidae) that is native to Central North America. C. belfragella larvae feed mainly on Cornus spp., Rhun typhina, and Vaccinium spp. True to their family name the larvae will "mine" through the leaves of their host plants creating noticeable damage.

Classification 

Animalia-Arthropoda-Insecta-Lepidoptera-Gracillarioidea-Gracillariidae-Gracillariinae-Caloptera-belfragella

Image(s): ©John Lee

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

I did not expect to be able to id this teeny micro moth to species, but I lucked out with the distinct patterning - this is a leaf blotch miner, Neurobathra strigifinitella.

[whore-ticulturist]

Funky little dude

Leaf blotch miner moth, Caloptilia protiella, Gracillariidae

Photographed at Airlie Beach, Australia by Steve & Alison1

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!