New moths
Beautiful Wood Nymph
Last year, in late July, I was at a Nature Conservancy refuge in Charlestown, Rhode Island, at a National Moth Week event. When the sun went down, our leader, a crackerjack young biology student named Ryan St. Laurent, set up a white sheet and a black light to attract moths. One that arrived is known as the Beautiful Wood Nymph, a species I had seen before but hadn't learned to identify. Ryan was a good teacher, for when Eudryas grata appeared at our back-porch lights recently, I was pretty sure I knew what it was. A quick check in the new Peterson Field Guide to Moths confirmed my suspicion.
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