I found this leaf mimic moth in my garage a couple of days ago (2008-11-29). On a tree, it would have been practically invisible, but on the white walls of my garage it stuck out like A Thinkpad in an Apple store.
Tentatively, it has been ID’d as 6981 – Prochoerodes forfocaria, though I’m not absolutely certain of that.
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I’ve run out of identified moths, but I still have a couple of mystery moths left. This one I found in the evening at the Huntington Beach Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center on Pacific Coast Highway last Saturday, November 15:
Anyone recognize it?
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Today’s subject hasn’t actually graduated to full moth-hood yet, but I’m scraping the bottom of the barrel. This is the caterpillar of the Yellow-striped Armyworm Moth – Hodges#9669 (Spodoptera ornithogalli).
Campus Drive between Bridge and University, Irvine, 2008-09-14
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I found a few more moths in my back albums, but if I don’t find some more soon January will be pretty bleak:
Chytonix divesta, Hodges#9559
Shoreline Park, Mountain View, 2008-06-25
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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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