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Ghost Moth

Hepialus humuli

About

Males are ghostly white and perform an eerie hovering dance over grassland at dusk to attract brownish females. This primitive moth has very short antennae and no functional mouthparts.

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Did You Know?

Pendulum-like swaying of white males above grass at twilight gives them a genuinely ghostly appearance.