{"id":246,"date":"2019-11-26T06:43:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T06:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2022-05-25T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T08:30:23","slug":"indian-owlet-moth-spirama-retorta-at-jims-jungle-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/indian-owlet-moth-spirama-retorta-at-jims-jungle-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Owlet-Moth (Spirama Retorta) at Jim&#8217;s Jungle Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Indian Owlet-moth<\/strong> is a beautiful nocturnal moth belonging to &#8216;Eribidae&#8217; family of moths. It has a large distribution range from Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China to India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and south-east Asia in Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-247 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Indian-Owlet-moth-IMG_20190331_053625-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Owlet-moth\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Indian-Owlet-moth-IMG_20190331_053625-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Indian-Owlet-moth-IMG_20190331_053625-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Indian-Owlet-moth-IMG_20190331_053625-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Indian-Owlet-moth-IMG_20190331_053625-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Indian-Owlet-moth-IMG_20190331_053625-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Indian-Owlet-moth-IMG_20190331_053625-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-186x116.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Indian-Owlet-moth-IMG_20190331_053625-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The species displays an interesting pattern on its wings that resembles a snake&#8217;s face with a slightly open mouth. This is a defense strategy developed through the long course of evolution and helps the moth escape its predators.<\/p>\n<p>This Indian Owlet-moth was photographed at <em><strong>Jim&#8217;s Jungle Retreat<\/strong><\/em> by our Chief Naturalist, Manoj Sharma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Owlet-moth is a beautiful nocturnal moth belonging to &#8216;Eribidae&#8217; family of moths. It has a large distribution range from Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China to India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and south-east Asia in Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The species displays an interesting pattern on its wings that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[73,72,62,71],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jimsjungleretreat","tag-chief-naturalist","tag-indian-owlet-moth","tag-jims-jungle-retreat","tag-manoj-sharma"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}