DUSK WINGS

A PHOTOGRAPHIC MOTH-HUNTING JOURNAL

Sunday, August 8, 2010

July 31, 2009

White-blotched Heterocampa (x2)
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Brown Panopoda
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White-Dotted Prominent
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Curve-Toothed Geometer
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Spotted Datana
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Ilia Underwing
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Locust Underwing
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Azalea Sphinx
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Abbott's Sphinx
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Tulip-Tree Silkmoth (female? extraordinarily tiny compared to most!)
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Tulip-Tree (male, x3)
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IMPERIAL, first sighting! (male)
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Polyphemus (female)
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Regal (male)
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Luna (female, x3)
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Luna(male, x4)
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

10 July, 2009: eclosed male Luna

a series of photographs showing a freshly eclosed male Luna moth expanding his wings. he cocooned on 18 June, 2009 and eclosed on 10 July, 2009.

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10 July, 2009

Banded Tussock
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Giant Leopard Moth
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Tulip-Tree Silkmoth (male)
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Regalis (male, 2 out of 2 shown)
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Fervid Plagodis (not 100% sure on ID)
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Rosy Maple
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Huckleberry Sphinx
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Epione Underwing
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Colorful Zale
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Saturday, August 8, 2009

30 June 2009

Banded Tussock Moth
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Clymene (x5, one shown)
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Giant Leopard Moth
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Polyphemus, male
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Regalis, male (x2)
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Large Maple Spanworm
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Red-Bordered Emerald
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Spotted Datana (x4, two shown)
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rare view of a Spotted Datana with wings unfurled
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White-Dotted Prominent
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Pink-Striped Oakworm Moth
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Spiny Oakworm Moth (x4, two shown)
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The Angel (uncommon, according to Covell)
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Walnut Sphinx
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Dot-Lined White
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Andromeda Underwing
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Epione Underwing
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Ilia Underwing (x2)
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(form "conspicua", notice the spots are solid white on this one)
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Little Nymph (x2)
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(form "gisela")
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ALL PHOTOGRAPHS © D. SUTTON / T. SEARFOSS