So Beautiful Moth: Spilosoma Virginica

Spilosoma virginica is a medium-sized moth (FW 19 - 25 mm) with pure white wings marked with a few black dots.

Spilosoma virginica is a species of moth in the Arctiinae subfamily. As a caterpillar, it is known as the Yellow woolly bear or Yellow bear caterpillar. As an adult, it is known as the Virginia tiger moth.

This species is common to abundant at lower elevations.  In the Pacific Northwest, it occupies coastal grasslands, coastal rain forests, mixed hardwood forests, and conifer forests west of the Cascades.

It has a diet of a wide range of low-growing plants, including ground cover like grass and clover. This species tends to have two to three life cycles per year, with one hibernating for the winter in temperate climates.

Australian endangered species: Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat

The Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat is one of the world’s most endangered species – it is more endangered that the Panda.

The Wombat Foundation is a charitable organisation set up to support activities that aim to bring the Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat back from the brink of extinction.

The largest of the three wombat species, the northern hairy-nosed wombat is also the largest known herbivorous burrowing mammal.

The hairy-nosed wombat is the largest of the world’s three wombat species weighing up to 32 kgs (about 70 pounds).

It spends the day sheltering inside its burrow, emerging at night to feed on grasses, and its very low water requirements help it to survive in its hot, dry environment.

One of the world’s rarest mammals, the northern hairy-nosed wombat has declined due to a combination of drought, competition for food with cattle and sheep, habitat loss due to invasive grasses, and predation by dingoes.

The Epping Forest National Park in central Queensland, Australia, was created to protect the last remaining population of this species, and cattle and dingoes have been excluded from the area.

Various conservation efforts are underway to try and save the northern hairy-nosed wombat, and a second population has now been established in southern Queensland.

Although this rare marsupial is still perilously close to extinction, its population has risen from fewer than 20 or 30 individuals in the 1970s to around 200 by 2012.

Do Black Lions Exist?

The lion  is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae.

A picture of a black lion has recently been circulating online. But is there such an animal as a black lion?

Black lions are not biologically impossible.

However, the lion in this picture is actually a white lion colored black through photo manipulation.

Mexican salamanders

Mexican salamanders is a type of sea urchins.

Live in ponds, especially in pool Zuccimelcho in Mexico City.

Mexican salamanders of interest to scientific research related to the renewal vital because of its ability to configure if severed limbs or damaged.

Spends his life in water and does not leave, despite being an amphibious animal.