Kembali dari rehat dan kembali ke siri serangga-berita-kegagalan Genius of the Press! Baru dari akhbar dari tahun lepas, Jabatan Alam Sekitar, Makanan dan Hal Ehwal Luar Bandar di UK telah ditutup kerana serangan besar-besaran rama-rama pakaian. Gambar yang ditunjukkan di sini dari “Bangsa” 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!
