2018 June 25

 

   Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of a mystery object from Taylor Beach.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I believe that this is a shelter inside of which is a caterpillar of a tiny micro moth in the Family Coleophoridae.

 

   Jeremy continues:  Yesterday I did some grocery shopping.  When I got home I emptied my purchases on the kitchen table, and then I noticed a moth at the bottom of the shopping bag.  Goodness knows how it got there.  It is rather worn, and all I managed was a rather blurry photograph before it flew away.  In spite of the blurry photograph of a worn moth, I believe I can identify it as Apamea amputatrix.

 

Coleophorid larval shelter (Lep.: Coleophoridae)   Jochen Möhr

 

Apamea amputatrix (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum