Mysterious Moth I found on the Internet.
Greetings Steemit Family, I am Turquoise Dragon.
I would like to share with you a strange collection of Moths I found and the internet.
As well as one that interests me very much to it’s validity and I would
love for my Steemit family to puzzle over it themselves with me.
[UPDATE]
Is this a Moth or Photoshop?
[It seems that the Moth was real….. yeah, magnificent !!!!]
Or is there some mating ritual that certain moths do that I don’t know about? Please Help !
I found out it was
|The moth’s characteristic that really turns heads are those massive<span style="background-color: #e9ebec; color: #222222;">furry things streaking away from the </span><em style="color: #222222;">Creatonotos’ </em><span style="background-color: #e9ebec; color: #222222;">abdomen; those dangly organs are its scent organs</span>``called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair-pencil" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Coremata - Wikipedia">coremata</a>. The coremata (or hair-pencils) produce the pheromone hydroxydanaidal to attract their mates.|
Now that I come to think about it I am not quite what any Moth mating ritual looks like or what they do in their spare time. All I know is that when they are spending it with me Moth are usually flying into my light bulb, determined little things are Moths.
|Adult males <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretion" title="Secretion">secrete</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheromone" title="Pheromone">pheromone</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxydanaidal" title="Hydroxydanaidal">hydroxydanaidal</a> in order to attract mates|
|The amount produced, and the size of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair-pencil" title="Hair-pencil">coremata</a> (scent organs) which produce it,
Conclusion:-
Moths are beautiful creatures on this Earth, very much Aliens to us as we know very little about them.
After discovering this Moth image from a friend online it made me realise the infinite potential of this universe and how we have so much more to discover.