1337 researching skillz!
I've always been into science... and by "always" I mean always; I learned the alphabet so that I could use an index. I'm not kidding - age three I was looking up things in an index for fun!
Anyways. You know how I posted picture of the moths? And there were those two weird ones, right?
I figured out the species! Out of 13,000+ North American Species, I figured it out *dances* I'm totally made of win. It can be annoying how good I am at looking things up though... people tend to turn to me to look things up for them!
Alright, so this moth is: Spotted Apatelodes Moth - Apatelodes torrefacta - Hodges#7663
And this moth is: Spiny Oak-Slug Moth - Euclea delphinii - Hodges#4697
I looked at hundreds, probably thousands, of moth pictures to ID them! The problem with the Spotted Apateloes Moth is that many of the pictures are of the moth in a display set-up. It looks like this when it's spread out an preserved, very different!:
And with the Spiny Oak-Slug Moth, the green spots (which look like lichen) are different from moth to moth, so it was challenging to pin down the species!
Anyways. You know how I posted picture of the moths? And there were those two weird ones, right?
I figured out the species! Out of 13,000+ North American Species, I figured it out *dances* I'm totally made of win. It can be annoying how good I am at looking things up though... people tend to turn to me to look things up for them!
Alright, so this moth is: Spotted Apatelodes Moth - Apatelodes torrefacta - Hodges#7663
And this moth is: Spiny Oak-Slug Moth - Euclea delphinii - Hodges#4697
I looked at hundreds, probably thousands, of moth pictures to ID them! The problem with the Spotted Apateloes Moth is that many of the pictures are of the moth in a display set-up. It looks like this when it's spread out an preserved, very different!:
And with the Spiny Oak-Slug Moth, the green spots (which look like lichen) are different from moth to moth, so it was challenging to pin down the species!