Moths caught with the school moth traps

Moth Home Page January February March April May June July August September October November December

More facts to amaze you to follow soon!!!!!!   

images © sansiôr
How do you tell the difference between a moth and a butterfly?

A moth's antennae are either long, slender and threadlike or they are thick and feathery, while a butterfly's antennae, on the other hand, are almost always smooth and very slim with a small "knob" like feature on the end of each and look like  golf clubs!

A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away!

Red Admiral Butterfly

Black Arches Moth
Females Emperor moths produce a pheromone scent that can be detected by males more than 6 miles away.The male Emperor moth uses these feathered antennae to find a female. In other words he could be in Llandudno and could 'smell' a female as far away as Colwyn Bay!!
Both butterflies and moths belong to the order lepidoptera. In Greek, this means scale wing. There are more moths than butterflies! Of the 130,000 lepidoptera about 111,000 are moths!

Moth eyes are made up of thousands of tiny lenses like the eye of this dragonfly
Dragonfly's head Close up of a dragonfly's eye