Everyone is familiar with the famous death’s head hawkmoth, maar ek dink dit is 'n jammerte ons het so 'n somber karakter gewild. Bo is 'n baie meer vrolik Neotropical Arctiinae Franse Guiana wat lyk soos dit is sport 'n nar gesig. Ongelukkig is dit nie my foto, but you should take a moment to explore Les Lépidoptéristes de France website. Their photos from their annual expeditions makes me jealous!
Many thanks for quoting our Idalus dorsalis picture from French Guyana and adding a link to our website. I’ll add asap a link to your interesting blog.
By the way, I was astonishing by reading your post “1984” about taking pictures of farms. Farms as military secret buildings !!! I’m sure it’s to protect (and hide) Monsanto activities.
Alles van die beste,
JMG
About death’s head moth, look at this one from Papua : Lymantria pelospila TURNER, 1915
Picture available on the page :
http://www.lepido-france.fr/2010/12/heteroceres-de-larfak/
See also : Xylophanes epaphus BOISDUVAL, 1875 : not a death’s head this time but a standing man wearing a hat !
From the page : http://www.lepido-france.fr/2011/04/sphingidae-de-guyane-francaise/
Many other moth interesting pics on the pages :
http://www.lepido-france.fr/category/H%C3%A9t%C3%A9roc%C3%A8res/
http://www.lepido-france.fr/2011/04/heteroceres-daustralie/
Alles van die beste
JMG
Thanks for the other links. Would love to tag along on one of those trips some day, looks like lots of fun!
I added a link to the Skeptical Moth on the page :
http://www.lepido-france.fr/liens/categorie/heteroceres/
Alles van die beste,
JMG