Three modest moths, one masked

in #photography7 years ago

It was the first time I have seen this species of moth. It looks like somebody drew a mask on its wings.

It is a dun-bar (Cosmia trapezina), called, for mysterious reasons, hyena in Dutch:


Olympus Stylus 1s, 42mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/40s

I think pretty little white moth is a muslin moth (Diaphora mendica), mendicabeer in Dutch, but I'm not sure:


Olympus Stylus 1s, 42mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/100s

This brown silver-line (Petrophora chlorosata), varenspanner in Dutch, was hiding deep in the grass, probably looking for shelter from the wind and rain:


Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/320s

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Moths, my favourites, have a large collection of pictures shot the last years, nightpictures.
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Nice one! But shouldn't you be posting them?

Still a lot of determining to do and it's not that easy.
Anyway no way near the quality of your pics!

Moths are pretty crazy creatures - and for some reason the only thing my cat goes wild for! (wish he did the same for spiders)

Yes, a cat that hunts spiders, that would be nice 8-).

Tell me about it!!! He is a classic cat and sleeps all day, however if he senses a moth (and only moths) he goes crazy and will run about the house jumping to catch it!

Cool as always :)

Maybe it's called "hyena" because of the color and the mask, formed in the middle of the wings, resembling the face of the actual animal.

Does it? Looking up hyena photos now 8-).

Moth has nice wings! Great shot

wonderful creature of God, and so nicely captured by you , and yeah you are right is seems that ita a mask on his wings , i can see the real beauty of nature in this post , very nice post

Thank you!

Thanks for giving us the proper names of the insects, so we can research them further.

the result of the pictures is so so brilliant , the resolution and the overall picture quality is so good , and obviously you captured pics very well, kindly share with us your camera model and brand and also guide us in a new post about capturing these high resolution close shots

All three are incredible but the eyes on the Dun-bar, wow. Your photo is spot on. Bravo @ocrdu.

WOW it really does look like a face maybe its part of there defense makes things thing it is bigger than it is

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