There were plenty of these little green things at Kilpisjärvi, eating birches and other green stuff. Some years the Epirrita autumnata moth larvae have defoliated square kilometers of birch forests in the fells of Lapland.
(Posting title is from the poem Möbius by David Gewanter.)
Here are three photographs taken last Tuesday, when I went for a walk with my youngest daughter. There were signs of summer to cherish, or perhaps not, for example the webbing made by Yponomeuta evonymellus. It is such a beautiful moth as an adult but the larval web can make one shudder.
(Posting title is from the poem Full Moon by Elinor Wylie.)
The larvae of ermine moths (Yponomeuta evonymellus) demolished the foliage of bird cherry trees early in the summer, and now the adults have come out. They are really beautiful moths, and there are a lot of them in a nearby park. But they are not good news for the bird cherry trees...
Bird cherry trees are once again populated by larvae of the moth Yponomeuta evonymellus, a lot of them. Some trees have all the leaves eaten already.
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