Types of daytime moths. However there are many day flying moths and many of them are brightly colored. Moths like all insects provide vital ecological services including as food sources for other organisms. With around 2500 species of moth in the uk theres an amazing amount of diversity to be discovered. While many species are merely disturbed from daytime resting positions in vegetation and therefore could be considered to not strictly be day flying moths there are many species that are either solely or more.
Even the moths that are brown have intricate patterns and incredible camouflage. Luna moth can be found in eastern texas central florida eastern north dakota and nova scotia west to saskatchewan. This is a type of moth with lime green colored wings and a white body and is also often referred to as the american moon moth. There are burnet moths with black and red wings tiger moths with beautiful bold patterns and hawk moths that can be as large as your hand.
They are also important pollinators. Moths are flying insects in the order of lepidoptera which is also the same order to which butterflies belong. One of the moth species most commonly seen is the tomato hornworm moth although it is noticed in the caterpillar stage as it devours tomato foliage in the garden. There are over 160000 recorded species of moths across the globe with around 11000 of these being found in the united states and around 2500 being found in the united kingdom.
Their predators include birds mammals and spiders.