26 October 2017

Creatonotos gangis shows off his coremata


This otherwise unremarkable Australian moth is capable of everting four pheromone-releasing organs (coremata)("hair-pencils"), each of which is longer than the moth's abdomen.

You learn something every day.

Photo credit Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland.

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