Tilbage fra pause og tilbage til Genius Press insekt-news-fiasko serie! Frisk ud presser fra sidste år, Institut for Miljø, Fødevarer og landdistrikterne i England blev lukket ned for en massiv infestation af tøj møl. Den her viste fra billede “The Nation” 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 af “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!
