Fairly settled, most the morning, a faint-spotted palthis moth (Palthis asopialis).
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August 28, 2019
June 11, 2019
August 4, 2018
July 17, 2018
October 18, 2017
October 8, 2017
July 29, 2017
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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July 19, 2017
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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September 20, 2016
May 18, 2016
an ancient sphinx long ago posed the riddle
whose answer all who heard were already living.
More recent wisdom emboldens one to “live the questions now”
so to grow and embody the answers tomorrow.
These days, by Little Crum Creek, a Nessus sphinx moth (Amphion floridensis)
suspends the lesson between a beckoning lilac and its transfixed observer,
unfurling a feeder toward ephemeral blooms before the season passes.
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