{"id":2389,"date":"2023-10-11T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayhelena.work\/cinnamon-moth-and-dock-moth\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:30:51","slug":"cinnamon-moth-and-dock-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayhelena.work\/en\/cinnamon-moth-and-dock-moth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinnamon Moth and Dock Moth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today my workday began with photographic luck: one morning, two caterpillars. It&#8217;s fascinating how a caterpillar can brighten my day. <\/p>\n\n<p>&#8230;The thing is, I bring my camera to the factory grounds practically every day.<br\/>For one, because I can work wonderfully against office life with my hobby. And for another, because industrial areas offer many opportunities for photography, especially when you discover an interesting caterpillar. <\/p>\n\n<p>Industrial areas are simply fantastic territories.<br\/>Poor, compact soils. Open spaces. Many spots that are simply left to themselves offer a perfect habitat for caterpillars&#8230;  <\/p>\n\n<p>Well, even in these places it&#8217;s exciting to find a caterpillar&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>Today I knelt down at a completely random spot.<br\/>Just to see&#8230; Very briefly&#8230; maybe a caterpillar will turn up. <\/p>\n\n<p>And what can I say?<br\/>Two caterpillars, not even 50 centimeters apart!<\/p>\n\n<p>Both are not rare in NRW (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbif.org\/species\/1782672\">Dock Moth at GBIF<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbif.org\/species\/1804071\">Cinnamon Moth at GBIF<\/a>). But I&#8217;ve never seen either of them before. <\/p>\n\n<p>The Cinnamon Moth was probably still a bit sleepy&#8230;<br\/>To the right of the moth, you can see a little bit of foam on a blade of grass. An unknown creature\u2014looking like a &#8220;slug&#8221; in format, but moving like something else\u2014came out of there and crawled toward the Cinnamon Moth.<br\/>It dismissed it with little movement&#8230; <\/p>\n\n<p>The Dock Moth, on the other hand, was already quite active:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Early morning sport of a caterpillar\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q3vcMlyDGp8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p>However, once on the leaf blade, the activity was over.<br\/>I had hoped to watch the caterpillar eating. But I couldn&#8217;t eat either if someone got that intrusive with me. <\/p>\n\n<p>I also looked at a few spots today that I want to explore tomorrow. The discovery of a caterpillar has made me curious.<br\/>Keep your fingers crossed for me! <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-nachtrag-august-2024\">Addendum August 2024<\/h2>\n\n<p>The following day I had no luck finding a caterpillar.<\/p>\n\n<p>Still. Since then I&#8217;ve had a wonderful time. For example, in this <a href=\"https:\/\/kayhelena.work\/sommerumschau\/\">summer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/kayhelena.work\/spaetsommer-in-bodennaehe\/\">late summer<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my workday began with photographic luck: one morning, two caterpillars. It&#8217;s fascinating how a caterpillar can brighten my day. &#8230;The thing is, I bring my camera to the factory grounds practically every day.For one, because I can work wonderfully against office life with my hobby. 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