#spongy moth

[onenicebugperday]

no need for identification, just wanted to share this cool photo i took of a moth recently :)

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh antennae. 11/10

[antiqueanimals]

Animal Coloration: An Account of the Principal Facts and Theories Relating to the Colors and Markings of Animals. Written by Frank E. Beddard. 1895.

Internet Archive

[hellsitegenetics]

I DESTROY THE LIFE YOU SAVOR

KILLING YOU WITH PERFECT LASER

MORE I BLAST THE MORE I STRONGER

MORE I FIRE, BEAM GETS LONGER!

GIVE MY NEW ATTACK A TRY,

PENIS BLAST, YOU HAVE TO DIE!

String isolated:

T T A

G T CT A

AT T TG

, A GT G!

G ATTAC A T,

AT, A T !

Closest match: Lymantria dispar genome assembly, chromosome: 30 Common name: Spongy moth

[moths-daily]

Could you do Spongy Moths? (I found out about them at summer camp because they are invasive in the area, which was in upstate New York.)

Moth Of The Day #119

Spongy Moth

Lymantria dispar

From the erebidae family. They have a wingspan of 40-90 mm. They tend to inhabit wooldland and forests. They can be found in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and South America.

[solitaire481]

My favourite moths for anyone who wants to know

1. Venezuelan poodle moth

2. Tolype moth

3. Spongy moth

4. Death's-head hawkmoth

5. Fox moth

[itzybitzyritzzy]

Return of an old OC! Meet Sparrow Gentry, my spongy moth turned space moth Librarian! Shes very tall (8ft 6in) so she can reach the highest bookshelves, when shes not working she's writing adventure autobiographies! Her love of writing knows no bounds. Hope yall like her! Ive been playing a lot of Space Station 14 and this got me back on the track to redraw her!

[casualberries]

This lil fella decided to sit on my window today

[fly1ngf0x]

I have nothing to post but this Nichiko doodle I’m sorry

I really want to build my characters and the plot all these characters are apart of, as well as get better with Adobe animate

My dreams take time with only a small number of people to verbally encourage me and no one financially supporting me when I’m in need

I WILL say animation doesn’t get easier than this and I love animate, gimme a little time

[ruinxl0ve]

Moth girls ! ✨️🦋🏳️‍🌈

[lacymoonchild]

[onenicebugperday]

@good-moon-rising submitted: found this cutie in Eastern Pennsylvania, I love the dots of colour on the top.

A very cute child! Tragically this child is non-native. It's a spongy moth.

[bugotd]

bug of the day: spongy from @dreamscreep

[hellsitegenetics]

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String identified:

G T AT G T!!!!!!

T T T C T A C T AG AT' A???

!!!! AAAA A AT' A!!!! T AT AA T!!!!!! T T A AGC!!!!! A AA

Closest match: Lymantria dispar genome assembly, chromosome: 27 Common name: Spongy moth

[wausaupilot]

Invasive caterpillars can make aspen forests more toxic for native insects – a team of ecologists explains how

Insects are critically important for the functioning and flourishing of all terrestrial ecosystems. But scientists have seen their numbers and diversity decline worldwide, a phenomenon called the insect apocalypse.

The aspen forest where our team conducted our recent study. Mark R. Zierden Richard L. Lindroth, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Patricia C. Fernandez, Universidad de Buenos Aires When we walked with a colleague into an aspen forest near Madison, Wisconsin, in the early spring of 2021, we expected to finalize our plans for a research project on several species of insects that live and feed…

[rjalker]

[ID: Nine images.

The first image is a comparison of four photos, the first two showing caterpillars, the second pair showing adult moths.

The first caterpillar and moth are labeled "European G__y moth - invasive", with the word censored in red to cross out the slur in the name. The second pair of caterpillar and moth are labeled, "Forest Tent Caterpillar - native"

The spongy moth caterpillar shown is dark with a thin white stripe on the back and covered in dark bristles. The adult moth is female, with thin antenne, and is white with some sparce tan marks on its top pair of wings.

The forest tent caterpillar shown has no visible hairs in this photo, and is turquoise with black and white spots on each segment. The adult moth shown is male, with thick antenne, with his wings tan and mostly solid.

A logo at the bottom has a diamond shape showing a forest above a body of water.

The second image shows another spongy moth caterpillar against a white background, zoomed in to show more detail. This one has the same dark body, but now at the base of each cluster of bristles, there are visible bumps.

The ones at the front of its body are dark blue, almost black, and the ones towards the end are red. On the sides are orange bumps. Its head is yellow, tan, black, and white, and two larger bumps are right above it. The stripe down its back is yellow.

The third image is a photograph of another spongy moth caterpillar sitting on a brick wall. Its back is black with intricate design of white twisting and curling in thin threads, with a white stripe down the center of its back, and dark red bumps.

The fourth image is a photo of several spongy moth egg cases on the side of a tree trunk with grey bark. The egg cases are tan and fuzzy and stand out starkly against the light bark and lichen.

The fifth image is a photo of another spongy moth caterpillar on a yellow surface. Its body is almost entirely black, with only the faintest of white stripes down its back.

The sixth image is a photo focusing on two pupae or chrysalises of the spongy moth, stuck to a leaf. One is much larger than the other. Each are dark brown, with orange hairs in small clusters, with the outer surface segmented and folded to partly resemble the shape of the adult body.

The seventh image is a photo of a female adult spongy moth, with thin antennae, and white wings that have only thin, sparse black markings including a curved dark line with a black spot above it on each wing. The remains of her chrysalis is next to her on the wooden surface.

The eighth image shows an adult male spongy moth, with thick antennae, and tan wings mottled with brown and some black, including the same spot and U mark as on the female.

The ninth image is a photo of both a male and female adult spongy moth next to eachother, with the dot and U marking circled in blue for emphasis. The female moth is larger than the male.

End ID.]

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for accessibility:

@chernobyl-brewed pleas copy the first part of the ID into your post, with the relevant sections under the photo they apply to.

Image descriptions are for the visually impaired the way subtitles are for those who's hearing is impaired. The ID should stay in normal sized, non-italicized, black font. You can indent it to make it easier to tell it apart from the rest of the post (This one is not indented because tumblr's decided that copying indented text into a new post is illegal)

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And before you start squishing anything, make 100% certain you have identified the insect correctly. If you aren't 100% sure you know how to identify the species correctly, don't go around killing things.

You can post photos to iNaturalist.org, which will not only help you find people who can help you identify it, it will help researchers all over the planet keep track of the species.

Here's the interactive map of observations of the spongy moth on iNaturalist. It'll update automatically every time someone adds a new observation:

Fortunately so far, the spongy moth's expansion is limited to the north eastern US, with none being observed on iNaturalist where I live yet, so the person I was complaining about in the original post is truly calling the native tent caterpillar moth "invasive" just because she doesn't like that it eats the leaves on her trees.

My original post is indeed talking about the native tent caterpillar moths, which you can see one of my photos of here:

[ID: a photo of a white oak tree with a group of webworm caterpillars on it, with a white hand for scale showing the cluster of caterpillars is slightly smaller than the hand. The caterpillars have grey backs with a single line of white dots, turquoise sides, and some light fuzzy hairs. End ID.]

If you call a native species "invasive" just because you don't like it I'm going to declare you invasive and fucking murder you.

No, that fucking native moth caterpillar is not invasive just because you don't like that it eats the leaves of the native trees in your yard.

Learn what a gods damned fucking ecosystem is. For the love of fuck.

[irradiatedsnakes]

FIGURED OUT FURRY TOME!! FINALLY!!! she's a jumping bean moth.