Could someone please help with the ID of these two moths? Thanks!
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Could someone please help with the ID of these two moths? Thanks!
No. 1 is a most amazing fly!
No. 2 is Amata stellaris (Moths of Borneo, part 6, p. 13); Arctiidae, Syntominae.
cheers,
Roger.
can No 1 fly PROPERLY in the first place?:what:
wow.. the antennas are like..
like.. two huge booms stuck on my head..
That fly reminds me of a 'joke' photo I saw recently (which I DO NOT approve of, by the way). It is obviously two pipecleaners attached to a weevil head attached to a cactus leaf with two fly's wings added on for show!
That's really a very strange looking fly! Besides the antennae, the abdomen also looks very strange.
No, it didn't fly. I wonder if it ever could. It was only walking clumsily.
Tang, do you need an ID for the fly for record purposes? If so, I can post it on Insectnet. One can usually get at least a partial ID there, and a bit of googling thereafter normally works. I, for one, would be very intetrested.
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Do flies have plumed antennae?
Moth flies (Family Psychodidae) and Mosquitoes (Family Culicidae) do.