Eight-spotted forester moth (Alypia octomaculata)

A caterpillar, it is said, likes the Virginia creeper inching along our woodland edge.
An adult will fly to flowers plentiful in neighboring gardens.
We met once in May 2015.
Have our paths not crossed since then?

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Rainy day

Wondering about the sun and butterflies like
Peck’s skipper (Polites peckius), pictured here summers ago.

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simple wonder

Some time before setting here, spotted white on hydrangea, this red-headed
inchworm moth (macaria bisignata) was a green caterpillar somewhere feeding on pine.

 

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unveiled

unveiled suddenly under leaves scurries
a subgothic dart moth (Feltia subgothica)

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Blending life

Blending life into our bend of steps where autumn falls —
a large maple spanworm moth (Prochoerodes lineola).

 

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Wild pearl

Called the sulphur pearl in its native Europe and a carrot seed moth in North America,

Sitochroa palealis was first reported in the U.S. in 2002.

But we just met, the two of us, hanging in the grass of national moth week.

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Lines of living

Lines of living geometry provide sufficient pause to discover, instead of a butterfly,

two of a kind of hoop-skirted moth: Chalcoela iphitalis, the sooty-winged chalcoela,

whose caterpillars hatch in paper wasp nests, feed on the host wasp’s larvae,
occupy then vacant cells for their own metamorphosis, and emerge to resume the circle all over.

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