@sciencebase Do you know if any moths have defence against echolocation to put off bats?
@sciencebase Sounds like 'chaff' or 'window'. Clever little things.
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.. and they're beautiful!
Saturniidae Moth
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@Adrenochrome @SteelFolk Indeed! You're preaching to the converted. I've been mothing and sharing their beauty for at least five years :-)
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Do you think their appearance depends on their food? This species definitely eats #Missoni shirts. 😆
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@Adrenochrome @sciencebase Not all moths grew up in the 1950s!
@Adrenochrome @SteelFolk Some insects and other animals definitely gain pigments from their food, but there a lot of moths that have incredible fashion sense for elaborate textiles and fabrics, hahaha
@sciencebase A Colour Chemist once told me about the hassle we had making mauve>purple>crimson but leps got there first.
@SteelFolk It was WH Perkin who made the big leap, innit?
@sciencebase I've got a book "Mauve" by S Goldfield - Perkin was 18, and working on Malaria, when he stumbled across it in his petri dish.
@SteelFolk Also, not all moths can hear, but some are finely tuned to bats and can evade
@SteelFolk yes! Some of them generate sounds that disturb