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Acanthoxia

The moth genus invalidly named thus by Traugott-Olsen in 1995 is now considered a junior synonym of Perittia.

Acinos arvensis

Acinos arvensis is recorded as a food plant for the larva of the moth Coleophora tricolor.

Amathes

:The moth genus Amathes is nowadays usually included in Xestia.

Arctia rueckbeili

It is found in Tien Shan, Alai and Turkestan mountains in Central Asia within Kyrghyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Chinese province of Xinjiang at altitudes 1300-3500 m a.s.l. The moth flies June to July.

Ascalapha odorata

In the movie adaptation the moth was changed to a Death's-head Hawkmoth.

Box of Rain

The line "moth before a flame" echoes several proverbs, such as "the fate of the moth in the flame"—Aeschylus, Fragments (Fragment #288).

Brodie helmet

The helmet was the inspiration for the name of the Memorable Order of Tin Hats (or the MOTH), a brotherhood of ex-front-line soldiers founded in 1927 by Charles Evenden.

Calliteara pudibunda

The Dutch common name for the moth (Meriansborstel) is named for famous butterfly and insect painter Anna Maria Sibylla Merian.

Centaurea maculosa

Thirteen biological pest control agents have been used against this plant and its cogener, diffuse knapweed, including the moths Agapeta zoegana and Metzneria paucipunctella, the weevils Bangasternus fausti, Larinus obtusus, and Larinus minutus and Cyphocleonus achates, and the fruit flies Chaetorellia acrolophi, Urophora affinis and Urophora quadrifasciata.

Charles Evenden

The MOTH national headquarters is situated in Warriors Gate, Durban, which is modelled on a Norman design from a photograph given to Evenden by Admiral Evans-of-the-Broke.

Coenobita

:The junior homonym Coenobita Gistl, 1848 is now the moth genus Ectropis.

Epipompilus insularis

insularis females hunt, usually in sunshine for retreat-making spiders in the concealed places where female spiders retreat to, such as rolled dead leaves; hollow plant stems; flax bushes; dead rolled fronds of tree-ferns; the abandoned cocoons of the bag-moth Liothula omnivora; deserted galleries of wood-boring beetles; and even the empty hatched galls of the moth Morova subfasciata in Muehlenbeckia australis and beneath loose bark on tree trunks.

Estigmene acrea

The moth does not seem to be affected by any type of pyrrolizidine alkaloid present in many plant families, including the borage, legume, dogbane, and orchid families, and the tribes Senecioneae and Eupatorieae of the aster family.

Etosha pan

Mopane trees are common throughout south-central Africa, and host the mopane worm, which is the larval form of the moth Gonimbrasia belina, and an important source of protein for rural communities.

Evolutionarily Significant Unit

For example, Cryan's buckmoth (Hemileuca maia subsp.) feeds only on the herb Menyanthes trifoliata, commonly known as buckbean, and while indistinguishable morphologically from related buckmoths, and not differentiated at the genetic markers tested, the moth is highly adapted to its host plant, having 100% survivorship on Menyanthes, while close genetic relatives all died when reared on the plant.

Genesis I

Bigelow also placed a life-sciences experiment on board, which contains four Madagascar hissing cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa) and approximately 20 so-called Mexican jumping beans, which are seeds containing the live larva of the moth Cydia deshaisiana.

Googie Withers

Withers starred in a number of stage plays, including Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, Desire of the Moth, The First 400 Years (with Keith Michell), Beekman Place (for which she also designed the set), The Kingfisher, Stardust, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Wilde's An Ideal Husband for the Melbourne Theatre Company; both productions toured Australia.

Hypena opulenta

In 2013, the moth larva was approved for release in North America to act as a bio-control for the invasive plant Cynanchum rossicum also known as dog-strangling vine.

Ivan Zagni

In 2003 Zagni was reunited with members of Blam Blam Blam/Big Sideways/Avant Garage to record with Tim Mahon's The Moth on the album Music From A Lightbulb.

Kadsura japonica

The larvae of the moth Caloptilia kadsurae feed on Kadsura japonica in the main Japanese islands and Ryukyu Islands.

Lepidosperma laterale

Many species of the moth genus Elachista lay their eggs on Lepidosperma laterale and the caterpillars eat the leaves.

Metalepsis

:The moth genus Metalepsis is usually included in Cerastis.

Moth Wranglers

The moth wranglers' song “Dear Santa (Don’t Come to My House)” — featuring Kendall Jane Meade — was used in the 2008 Irish feature film How About You, directed by Anthony Byrne and starring Vanessa Redgrave, Joss Akland and Hayley Atwell.

Neobathiea

The long-spurred Neobathiea grandidierana from Madagascar is pollinated by a long-tongued sphinginid hawkmoth Panogena lingens with the pollinaria deposited on the basal part of the proboscis of the moth.

Neuranethes spodopterodes

It seems that the moth had been translocated accidentally in horticultural stock and that the natural enemies had not been imported at the same time.

Opuntia stricta

In Australia it has been the subject of one of the first really effective biological control exercises using the moth Cactoblastis cactorum.

Painted apple moth in New Zealand

The moth is a native to Australia but in May 1999 it was found in Glendene, Auckland.

Pennantia cunninghamii

The larva of the moth Cardamyla carinentalis pupates between leaves of Pennantia cunninghamii.

Philip Sheppard

In 1961 Sheppard started a colony of scarlet tiger moths by the Wirral Way, West Kirby, Merseyside, which were rediscovered in 1988 by Cyril Clarke, who continued to observe them in his retirement to study changes in the moth population.

Prickly pears in Australia

The moth Cactoblastis cactorum from South America, whose larvae eat prickly pear, was introduced in 1925 and almost wiped out the population.

Pulmonaria

These include the case-bearer Coleophora pulmonariella which feeds exclusively on P. saccharata, and the moth Ethmia pusiella which has been recorded on P. offininale.

Riders of the Whistling Pines

Reporting it to the forest service and discovering that his shot could not have killed Carter, he is hired to run a program of aerial spraying of DDT to kill the moth larva before the forest is destroyed.

Satureja

Caterpillars of the moth Coleophora bifrondella feed exclusively on winter savory (S. montana).

Schinopsis

Schinopsis is the exclusive food plant of the moth Coleophora haywardi.

Siphae

For the moth genus that is also called Tipha, see Tisis

Spiraea

Spiraea species are used as food plants by the larvae of many Lepidoptera species, including the Brown-tail, the Small Emperor Moth, the Grey Dagger, the Setaceous Hebrew character, and the moth Hypercompe indecisa.

The Gem

:For the moth species, see Orthonama obstipata.

Tornatellides

These very small snails are preyed upon by caterpillars of the moth Hyposmocoma molluscivora.