Terug van hiatus en terug na die Genius van die Press insek-nuus-mislukking reeks! Vars uit die druk van verlede jaar, die Departement van Omgewing, Voedsel-en Landelike sake in die Verenigde Koninkryk is gesluit vir 'n massiewe besmetting van klere motte. Die prentjie wat hier uit “Die Nasie” story is a far cry from a proper clothes moth (Tineidae) – looks like a Noctuidae of some kind.
But it’s hard to blame them for getting this moth wrong when UK pest control companies don’t even know what a clothes moth is. Here is Instakil’s version van “the moth” that happens to be a Plusiinae noctuid.
And the winner for failed identification goes to this other UK company “Hawk Force“. Not even a moth – but a skipper butterfly!
