This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. These photos of Catocala ilia (Ilia Underwing) was taken by Betsy Higgins in Florence, MA (USA), August 2015. See more photos of Underwings and other moths on the National Moth Week Flickr group. National Moth Week 2016 will be held from 23rd to 31st July. Anyone can participate. Register …
Meet an Underwing – Ilia Underwing (Catocala ilia) Read More »
This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. This photo of was taken by Laney Rickman on May 12, 2014 in rural DeWitt County, Texas, USA. Originally posted as Catocala ultronia but may be Catocala micronympha, or a similar species. ID suggestions? Please let us know in a comment below. See more photos of …
This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. This photo of a red underwing – Red underwing (Catocala nupta) was taken by Katy Wrathall Taken on August 31, 2011 (location unknown). See more photos of Underwings and other moths on the National Moth Week Flickr group. National Moth Week 2016 will be held from 23rd to 31st July. …
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This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. This photo of a Blue Underwing (Catocala fraxini) was taken by Bernard DUPONT in Lavelanet, Ariege, FRANCE in January 2013. See more photos of Underwings and other moths on the National Moth Week Flickr group. National Moth Week 2016 will be held from 23rd to 31st July. Anyone can …
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The Hawkmoths of the northern Great Plains Poster is based upon specimens in the North Dakota State Insect Reference Collection (NDSU- Fargo, ND), specimens in the Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Museum (SDSU- Brookings, SD) an extensive literature search, about 45 years of collecting moths in the northern Great Plains by the author and numerous contributions from …
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In honor of National Moth Week, moth’er Jim Wright posted photos of moths he saw in a recent trip to Peru. Read more
Introducing a new website – Moths of Belize by Ian Morton “a photographic record and field guide to the moths of Southern Belize”. Well, if you are interested in wildlife then this could be paradise! We live just a mile and half from the sleepy town of Punta Gorda in the jungle of Southern Belize, …
Guest blog by Eric C. Reuter Last year in 2014, I was able to spend time in our summer cabin staring in March, which is much earlier than usual. I had never been there before early May in the past, as it is quite cold to be in an unheated and un-insulated summer cabin in …
Guest post: Early Spring Mothing In The NY Catskill Mountains Read More »
Happy New Year from the National Moth Week team! While National Moth Week celebrates the diversity of all moths, we like to shine a light—literally and figuratively—on a certain family of moths. Last year, we celebrated the year of the Silk moth (Saturniidae). This year, we are celebrating the family Sphingidae. Robust fliers with distinctive wing …
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