Fairly settled, most the morning, a faint-spotted palthis moth (Palthis asopialis).
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August 28, 2019
faint-spotted
Posted by Scott under lepidoptera | Tags: faint spotted, moth, nature, palthis asopialis |Leave a Comment
June 11, 2019
Eight-spotted forester moth (Alypia octomaculata)
Posted by Scott under Insects, lepidoptera | Tags: Alypia octomaculata, black, moth, nature, pennsylvania, white |[2] Comments
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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August 4, 2018
Rainy day
Posted by Scott under Insects, lepidoptera | Tags: butterfly, nature, Polites peckius, small |Leave a Comment
Wondering about the sun and butterflies like
Peck’s skipper (Polites peckius), pictured here summers ago.
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July 17, 2018
simple wonder
Posted by Scott under Insects, lepidoptera | Tags: inchworm, macaria bisignata, moth, nature, pennsylvania, red-headed |Leave a Comment
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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October 18, 2017
unveiled
Posted by Scott under Insects, lepidoptera | Tags: autumn, dart, Feltia subgothica, moth, nature, pennsylvania, subgothic |Leave a Comment
unveiled suddenly under leaves scurries
a subgothic dart moth (Feltia subgothica)
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October 8, 2017
Blending life
Posted by Scott under Insects, lepidoptera | Tags: autumn, large maple spanworm, moth, nature, pennsylvania, Prochoerodes lineola |[9] Comments
Blending life into our bend of steps where autumn falls —
a large maple spanworm moth (Prochoerodes lineola).
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July 29, 2017
Wild pearl
Posted by Scott under Insects, lepidoptera | Tags: crambid snout moth, Crambidae, moth, national moth week, nature, pennsylvania, Sitochroa palealis, summer |[2] Comments
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
Posted by Scott under Insects, lepidoptera | Tags: Chalcoela iphitalis, Crambidae, moth, nature, pennsylvania, summer |[4] Comments
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
Why plant milkweed?
Posted by Scott under Insects, lepidoptera, Plants | Tags: Asclepias syriaca, black, butterfly, Danaus plexippus, milkweed, monarch, nature, orange, pennsylvania, summer |[21] Comments
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in due time
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May 18, 2016
Myth has it …
Posted by Scott under Insects, lepidoptera | Tags: lilac, moth, nature, nessus sphinx, pennsylvania, rilke, sphinx, spring |[4] Comments
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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