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IcooIeyPhigalia titea moths, half wing looper males, light and dark morphs. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insects</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a>

hastingsmothmanMild night produced 14 <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> of 5 species. Still the usual quakers and drabs, but had a mint Hebrew Character, and probably my very earliest Bright-line Brown-eye - not the prettiest of moths, but this is particularly early in the year to be seeing them. Another few weeks and numbers/diversity will pick up and species will change.<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/moth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/MothsMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MothsMatter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insects</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/entomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#entomology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/lepidoptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lepidoptera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#garden</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/alttext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alttext</a>

Plazi Species<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/NewSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpecies</a>! New moth from <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#china</a>:Sinarella jinggangshanaTreatment: <a href="https://treatment.plazi.org/id/77B6DDF2-C5A6-5873-9DAB-1FA2C7E83897" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://treatment.plazi.org/id/77B6DDF2-C5A6-5873-9DAB-1FA2C7E83897</a> Publication: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e139845" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e139845</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/BioDataJournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BioDataJournal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/SinarellaJinggangshana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SinarellaJinggangshana</a><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/FAIRdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FAIRdata</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openaccess</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/taxonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#taxonomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/invertebrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertebrates</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/entomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#entomology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insects</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/lepidoptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lepidoptera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/mothsmatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mothsmatter</a>

MirandaLet's cleanse the timeline 🧹🧼🫧 😃<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TimelineCleanser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TimelineCleanser</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/naturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#naturephotography</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/macrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macrophotography</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/butterfliesareamazing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#butterfliesareamazing</a>

Bob Nicholls ArtMy 25 years of palaeoart chronology...The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A whisper at twilight" shows an eclipse of moths migrating across the North Sea.<a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Art</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Painting</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaleoArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PalaeoArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciComm</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Illustration</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dinosaurs</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Birds</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Pterosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pterosaurs</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reptiles</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/MarineReptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarineReptiles</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Paleontology</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Moths</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fossils</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JurassicPark</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JurassicWorld</a>

Harry RutherfordI went to Ockham Common today, where this Emperor moth was attracted by my powerful sexual magnetism (i.e. a pheromone-impregnated rubber bung from a specialist lepidopteran supply store). <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/TeamMoth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeamMoth</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/ukmoths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukmoths</a>

Harry RutherfordNot a great moth night, I don’t think they appreciated the cold wind. It was mainly a load of Common Quakers so I guess I should just be grateful the trap wasn’t raided by the Metropolitan Police. <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/TeamMoth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeamMoth</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/VC17" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VC17</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/littlebitofsatirethere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#littlebitofsatirethere</a>

Jon SullivanCheck out Aotearoa's five-finger looper moth, Xyridacma alectoraria. It's a big, elegant, yellow moth with a fringe of *hot pink*.This one came into my home moth light in January, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, and I uploaded it to <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/iNaturalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iNaturalist</a> today.My best guess for why it looks like this is that the older leaves of its host plant, five-finger, often turn yellow before they fall. I'm not sure why the hot pink works (but it does).<a href="https://inaturalist.nz/observations/267650636" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://inaturalist.nz/observations/267650636</a><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/mothodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mothodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/nz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insects</a>

hastingsmothmanMore Common Quakers (pic 1) and Clouded Drabs (pic 2), but first sighting in 2025 of an Early Thorn, one of the leaf-mimic moths. Not as bright and colourful as some of the thorn moths in the height of summer but nice to see one nonetheless (pics 3 & 4). See how the light affects its colouration. 3 & 4 are the same moth.<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/MothsMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MothsMatter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/lepidoptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lepidoptera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pollinators</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/entomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#entomology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#garden</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/alttext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alttext</a>

Donald HobernOne of the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> that came to UV light in <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/VillaDeLeyva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VillaDeLeyva</a>, <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Colombia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colombia</a> last night.This is Phrygionis platinata (<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Lepidoptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lepidoptera</a>, <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Geometridae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geometridae</a>, <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Ennominae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ennominae</a>). This was one of the commoner species that appeared.<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/entomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#entomology</a>

Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺New paper shows that moth numbers are reduced in areas with higher levels of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/skyglow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#skyglow</a> compared to areas with lower levels of skyglow, regardless of whether one is near streetlights or not: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126068" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126068</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LightPollution</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Moths</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pollinators</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Night" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Night</a>

B Thoreau 🛸I made friends with a Mournful Sphinx Moth, also called the Hawk Moth, today on my front porch. Look at those aerodynamic wings, the dead leaf camouflage! So cool! Moths are symbolic of mystery and the veil between the worlds. If this is a precursor to Cernunnos paying my front door a visit, though, I am going to be booking it out the back door like the big chicken I am! <a href="https://mas.to/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GreenMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreenMan</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TheOldGodsNotTheNew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheOldGodsNotTheNew</a>

sohkamyungA Metalmark Moth, Saptha beryllitis, spotted at Springleaf Nature Park, Singapore on 14 Dec 2024. With a flash and the correct angle, you can get brilliant metallic colours reflecting from its body and wings.On iNaturalist [ <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/255061533" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/255061533</a>].<a href="https://photog.social/tags/iNaturalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iNaturalist</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nature</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Photography</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Singapore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Singapore</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Insects</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Moths</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Lepidoptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lepidoptera</a>

Harry RutherfordPretty good moths last night. One new species, Small Brindled Beauty. One which is probably new but might need dissecting to be certain — I think it's either Caloptilia elongella or C. betulicola, either of which would be new for the garden. And I've thrown in a pic of a Dotted Chestnut bc it's pretty. <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/TeamMoth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeamMoth</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/VC17" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VC17</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/ukmoths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukmoths</a>

ryansutterOut shooting with my vintage <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nikonf?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nikonf</a> and crossed paths with this lovely <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Polyphemusmoth?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Polyphemusmoth</a> who posed for a portrait before flying away. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/filmphotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#filmphotography</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/35mm?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#35mm</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/moths?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/wildlifephotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlifephotography</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/mothsofpixelfed?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mothsofpixelfed</a>

hastingsmothmanMilder night last night so chanced the <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/moth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moth</a> box. Still early in the year so very few species / numbers yet (roll on May/June). More Common Quakers (x4) & Early Grey (x1). Also first sighting in 2025 of Oak Beauty and Small Quaker. Moths on my finger today are...1) Oak Beauty (top left) 2) Small Quaker (top right) 3) Common Quaker (BL) 4) Early Grey (BR)<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/MothsMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MothsMatter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/MothsAndButterflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MothsAndButterflies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/wildlifephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlifephotography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/lepidoptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lepidoptera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#garden</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pollinators</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/alttext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alttext</a>

daieno bikaThe <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/maple" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maple</a> trees aren’t just <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/sap" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sap</a> spigots. I don’t think I fully realized how many organisms interact with them before I moved to New England and started experiencing the process of tapping them. Here is <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/moss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moss</a>. Here is <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/lichen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lichen</a>. There might be a hollow where someone has stashed their acorns. Checking the sap buckets shows me the soft little <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/moths" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a>, grey and brown and black, that come to rest there and fall in. I rescue them and tuck them into bark crevices to wait for nightfall in a safer place. Sometimes there are little beetles as well. Later in the season when things are warming up and the sap is about to slow down, the <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/minerbees" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MinerBees</a> come. After a dunk in the sap, they sit in the sun and clean themselves. I didn’t know miner bees existed before I started finding them in the sap buckets. There’s a dying maple in the front yard of our co-op’s common house. One trunk fell down a couple years ago. Another is still standing, but dead. The surrounding branches are large and provide cover around that central <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/snag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snag</a>, which is I suspect the reason the woodpeckers and smaller birds like to sit there so much - they can hide from the hawks and get a bug snack.I used to dislike the maple trees. Their leaves become toxic to <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/horses" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horses</a> when they wilt, you see, and a very nice horse I knew when I was a child died when a storm brought down a maple branch in his pasture. He ate all the leaves and it took us days to notice the branch and figure out why he was sick. By then it was too late to save him, because he had already died. His friend, my horse, grieved for months. (I still grieve, in a less acute way. You never forget this sort of thing.)Now I view that experience as a reminder that horses are not <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/native" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#native</a> to this area. When I think about <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/pasturemanagement" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PastureManagement</a>,, I also think about how the horses and I can work with the land without trying to make it something it isn’t. I try to avoid having too many maples in the horses’ areas. But the maples were here first, and when we cut them they sprout back with so many more leaves at ground level that we’d have to rip out the whole stump to truly get rid of them. So maybe, sometimes, it’s better to leave a tree in place. We can route the fencing so that dropped branches and fallen trees are likely to land outside the horse zone. We can walk the fences and make sure nothing’s down after windy weather. We can watch the horses and be aware that strange behavior could be maple poisoning, so the vet doesn’t have to start from square one when time is of the essence to save a life. Is there still a risk of deadly snacking? Always. There are so many plants that horses cannot digest safely, for one reason or another. But mitigating the risks is a nuanced thing. It’s not even good for the horses to live on a perfectly groomed monoculture. So we work with the land we have, and we respect the fact that we are the ones out of place as best we can. <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/storytime" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StoryTime</a>

Donald Hobern<a href="https://biodiversity.social/@dhobern" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dhobern@biodiversity.social</a> Some of the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> in these shots:Gastrinodes bitaeniaria (<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Geometridae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geometridae</a> in frames 2-4)Scopula rubraria (smaller Geometridae in 2)Idaea philocosma (smaller Geometridae in 3)Leucania diatrecta (<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Noctuidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Noctuidae</a> at top of 2)Proteuxoa sp. (probably paragypsa) (Noctuidae at top left of 4)<a href="https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/418322-Gastrinodes-bitaeniaria" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/418322-Gastrinodes-bitaeniaria</a><a href="https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/244344-Scopula-rubraria" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/244344-Scopula-rubraria</a><a href="https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/342329-Idaea-philocosma" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/342329-Idaea-philocosma</a><a href="https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/447199-Proteuxoa-paragypsa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/447199-Proteuxoa-paragypsa</a><a href="https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/471505-Leucania-diatrecta" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/471505-Leucania-diatrecta</a>

Nicol🌿Big <a href="https://kind.social/tags/Moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Moths</a> or <a href="https://kind.social/tags/butterflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#butterflies</a> copulating 🦋

BillDoesn't someone in my network like <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a>?

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