Mokka mit Schlag » Bugs

So I went back to Santiago Oaks yesterday to find another one. This is an Armyworm Moth, Mythimna unipuncta, Hodges#10438, which I found about 7:15 A.M outside the restrooms. Thanks to Steve Nanz for this ID.

However this may be my last moth for a while. I don’t have any remaining publication quality (even blog quality) photos of moths, and the winter months are not great for moths, though just maybe I can scare up one or two more. Maybe if I put up a black light?
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Apparently more people than I thought are reading this since someone actually noticed when I didn’t put up a moth yesterday. So a day late, here’s the weekly moth, another Underwing from Irvine Regional Park:

Catocala californica?
Irvine Regional Park, Orange County, California, USA
September 3, 2008
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Merrick’s Pyralid Moth, Hodges 5117, Loxostegopsis merrickalis
Casper’s Wilderness Park, Orange County, California, USA
June 29, 2008

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There are somewhere over 10,000 different species of moths in North America. Sometimes even the larger ones can go unidentified. Here’s one from Shoreline Park in Mountain View that has as yet resisted efforts at identification:

If anyone recognizes it, please comment.

Unknown Species, genus, and family
Shoreline Park, Mountain View, 2008-05-07

Update

It took a few years but the current (January, 2011) thinking is that this is in the genus Tetracis. Exact species still indeterminate.

Silver Argiope, Argiope argentata, female
Robert E. Badham Marine Life refuge, Corona del Mar, 2008-10-09
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Pallid-winged Grasshopper, Trimerotropis pallidipennis
Corn Creek, Clark County, Nevada, 2008-09-28