This morning, husband spotted a very large, very handsome yellow and brown moth on the city-supplied black trash container, nestled into a depression that runs on the back side of it.   After looking into a couple of books (whose pictures showed this species with different markings--it's variable) I found it on BugGuide.net    There's not a record ( Read more... )

Late this evening, after sundown,  we found this beautiful moth on the ground near one of the big water tanks.


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Yesterday afternoon I was walking back from Owl Pavilion, still in the NW meadow, when I spotted something tiny, black-and-white, flittering near my feet.


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Yesterday, while out on our walk, we flushed a small cloud of pale moths from the tall grass...most fluttered weakly a yard or so then went back down in the grass, where it was hard to photograph them.  One didn't.  Today, thanks to a helpful person on BugGuide.net (useful resource for anyone interested in insects, spiders, and other invertebrates ( Read more... )