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 Απρίλιος 21, 2020 1000 ΜΜ by