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In many cultures, one of these moths flying into the house is considered bad luck: e.g., in Mexico, when there is sickness in a house and this moth enters, it is believed the sick person will die, though a variation on this theme (in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas) is that death only occurs if the moth flies in and visits all four corners ...
Chrysiridia rhipheus, the Madagascan sunset moth, is a species of day-flying moth of the family Uraniidae. It is considered one of the most impressive and appealing-looking lepidopterans . [ 10 ] Famous worldwide, it is featured in most coffee table books on Lepidoptera and is much sought after by collectors, though many older sources misspell ...
Basic moth identification features. While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, comprising the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and ...
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
Members of Noctuidae, like other butterflies and moths, perform an important role in plant pollination. Some species have developed a stronger connection with their host plants. For example, the lychnis moth (Hadena bicruris) has a strange mutualistic relationship with pink plants or carnation plants (Caryophyllaceae), in that larvae feed on ...
With about 28,000 identified species, according to Paris Lalicata, head of plant education and community at The Sill, there’s basically an endless list of how many variations and colors of ...
The larvae are known as "cutworms" because they cut plants and other crops. [4] The larvae are serious agricultural pests and feed on nearly all varieties of vegetables and many important grains. [5] [6] This species is a seasonal migrant that travels north in the spring and south in the fall to escape extreme temperatures in the summer and winter.
The currently 17 recognized species are distributed in the Indomalayan and Australasian realm. [ 1 ] The genus contains several species that are considered pests on economically important food plants such as Ipomoea , Elettaria and Curcuma , on ornamental plants like Alpinia , and on Shorea , Dipterocarpus and several genera of the pine family ...