Hello, from Steve Garten and welcome to my weird and wonderful world of moths.

I’m amateur Lepidopterist, I trap and record moth species on my six acre wildlife meadow at Tibenham Norfolk, UK.

The list of moths listed in this Macro-moths blog and the Micro Moths blog are the species I have recorded since 2015.

Ghost Moth-Hepialus humuli.

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Ghost Moth-Hepialus humuli. The moth is from the family of Hepialidae. Largest of our Swift moths, formerly named the Ghost Swift. It as a Wingspan around 50 mm. The English name 'Ghost' comes from the white males, which can sometimes be seen at dusk hovering over grassy areas performing ghostly courtship displays known as ‘lekking'. The females are quite different, yellow, marked with orange. The moth as one generation and its flight season are in June-Aug. The moth’s habitat is rough meadows and grassland. The foodplant for this species is grasses and Herbaceous plants. The moth is classed as a common species and well distributed throughout the UK.

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