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Saw 2-3 in close proximity

C. sororiata? (vaccinium feeder)

Found at a gas station in early AM! Read that it does not come to lights that frequently.

Collected from light trap.

Herm Covey, visit 3: M042 (Cady Lane), count: 2

Looks most like Dasychira cinnamomea.

ID confirmed by brushing scales off tip of abdomen. In A. interoceanica, the digitus on the valvae (see 3rd pic) does not extend beyond the tip of the valvae, as it does in A. americana.

Light Trap. Pinned in 2016. Photographed in 2020.

Overnight Light Trap.

MV light

M045, Visit 1. Palmer WMA: Burleigh Park, little bluestem, pitch pine, blueberry, wild indigo.

Light trap.

Light trap.

M012, Visit 2. Birch Hill Rifle Range: sweet fern, bracken fern, wintergreen, high and low bb, white pine, red oak, white oak, birch seedlings (low of 54, no moon, no precip).

Light trap.

Collected at light trap.

Overnight Light Trap

Found at Quabbin Reservoir

female laying eggs

"Rifle Range", spotted on trap/sheet at point M011.

Rifle Range, M12

Rifle Range, M12. Genus Peridea, I think.

Rifle Range, M12