Back from hiatus and back to the Genius of the Press insect-news-failure series! Fresh iaz prentsak off, Ingurumen, Elikagai eta Nekazaritza Gaietako Erresuma batuan itzali zen arropa moths infestation masibo bat egiteko. Hemen erakutsitako irudia bertatik “Nazioa” 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 of “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!
