Orange Swift Moth
Triodia sylvina (formerly Hepialus sylvina)
Other moths of the Swift
family are shown further down the page
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Orange Swift Moth Triodia sylvina (formerly Hepialus sylvina) |
Other moths of the Swift
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Male Orange Swift moth (female is larger and less brightly-coloured) |
Moths of the Swift family are primitive and have no mouthparts so don't eat as adults; they survive on the fat stored as a caterpillar |
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Common Swift Moth formerly: Hepialus lupulinus; revised: Korscheltellus lupulina |
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Not as brightly-marked as its Orange cousin, the male Common Swift has more-defined marking, in brown and white, than the khaki female below. |
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| The female Common Swift, above, has softer markings on an olive-khaki colouring | Head on the Common Swift looks like a lion with its tawny mane |
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Ghost Moth/ Ghost Swift Hepialus humuli |
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A member of the Swift family, the male GHOST MOTH (also Ghost Swift) has snowy (ghostly) white wings and a "ghostly" habit of an undulating up and down flight when displaying to attract a female (hence the name). The female looks very different. She is much larger and has orange patterns on yellow. Unusually for moths, it is the female ghost moth that is more attracted to light than the male (usually the reverse). Many thanks to Terry Hobbs for permission to display his photos of the female ghost moth shown here. |
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| Another lion's mane | |