Monday, November 8, 2010

Montana Six-plume Moth - Alucita montana

At only about 10mm in size, this little moth flutters about quite gracefully. It's only when I photographed it that I saw its real beauty and understand how it got the last part of its name.
I found this one when we were down visiting southern Saskatchewan in September.





3 comments:

Ariel Gordon said...

Wow.

Claire said...

Amazing! Are the wings actually single plumes with side hairs? similar to the developement of a feather?

Harvey Schmidt said...

Yes the wings each have six fringed plume-like segments.

Amazing indeed!