Genius de Presă XXII

Back from hiatus and back to the Genius of the Press insect-news-failure series! Fresh off the presses from last year, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the UK was shut down for a massive infestation of clothes moths. The picture shown here from The Nationstory is a far cry from a proper clothes moth (Tineidae) – looks like a Noctuidae of some kind.

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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 ofthe moththat happens to be a Plusiinae noctuid.

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And the winner for failed identification goes to this other UK companyHawk Force“. Not even a mothbut a skipper butterfly!

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