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    ✧ Euthrix potatoria ✧

    Euthrix potatoria, commonly known as the drinker, is an orange-brown moth in the family Lasiocampidae. The species' common and scientific names derive from the larva's supposed drinking of drops of dew. It is found in Europe, most frequently found in marshy places, fens and riversides but may also be seen in drier, grassy ter...

    #Lasiocampidae #caterpillar #Europe #Estonia #Keila #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthrix_

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    ✧ oak eggar ✧

    The oak eggar (Lasiocampa quercus) is a common moth in the family Lasiocampidae found in Europe and northern and western parts of Asia. The larvae feed on a wide variety of plant species, low down, including blackthorn, hawthorn, viburnum, dogwood, ivy and ling, but are not known to feed on oak. They can be infected by baculoviruses, which change th...

    #Asia #Lasiocampidae #Europe #Estonia #Keila #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_eggar

  3. Each night I run an automated #insect light here in Canberra using a #RaspberryPi, Logitech BRIO #webcam, UV LEDs and #OpenCV image segmentation. Some example images from the night of 3/4 November: Porela delineata (#Lasiocampidae), Stenoptilia zophodactylus (#Pterophoridae), Thallarcha partita (#Erebidae, #Arctiinae) and Exaireta spinigera (#Stratiomyidae).

    My hope is to build a large enough set of identified images to attempt to train a #model and move towards automated #timeseries capture.