Weekly Moths

This will be my first journal post, so may be somewhat of an experiment. It seems that having a weekly summary of the new moths could be a good idea for journaling. I am keeping a tally of moths seen for the year. It would have been a good idea to start the journaling at the same time. However, since I did not, I'll just include new moths for the year seen over the past week. For the purpose of consistency, I'll define a week as local Sunday through Saturday. So we're already into the next week. Moths seen this week are:

• Archips argyrospila
• Archips grisea
• Archips semiferana
• Argyrotaenia quercifoliana
• Blastobasis sp.
• Clepsis peritana
• Clepsis virescana
• Cobubatha dividua
• Costaconvexa centrostrigaria
• Cyclophora nanaria
• Dichomeris ligulella
• Eupithecia sp.
• Gretchena bolliana
• Hypena scabra
• Idia americalis
• Melipotis indomita
• Nematocampa resistaria
• Nomophila nearctica
• Orthonama obstipata
• Panopoda carneicosta
• Parapediasia teterrellus
• Symmetrischema striatella
• Tripudia quadrifera
• Udea rubigalis

I suppose I should add something interesting. I've noticed that Orthonama obstipata sometimes rests with wings held out flat and sometimes with them raised . I'm curious about this behavior but have not researched it yet. I'm including an observation of each, mostly to test out that feature.

Posted on 21 April, 2020 22:00 by victorengel