Friday, 3 July 2020

Now here's a proper moth



The first of my Luffia lapidellas  ( = Ferchaultella) emerged this morning. It's a female (as they all are) all 2.2mm of her. She had a bit of trouble locating her old case with her ovipositor to start with so I opened it up a bit under the microscope. She then started to lay eggs for the next five hours or so before dropping down to the ground to die in the not to distant future.  
As usual at the moment the photos are poor quality screen grabs.

2 comments:

AndyC said...

fantastic ..how many eggs did she lay in 5 hours......!!!!!

charlie streets said...

I didn't look, I just put the case out in the garden - probably around 40 or so.