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First underwing
August 23, 2020 - Normally, by this point in August, my notebook has been awash in sightings of those enigmatic moths known as Underwings.
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Pretty pest
July 23, 2020 - I spend a lot of time and quite joyful energy in July looking for hummingbird moths, those remarkable lepidopteran mimic...
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Wool off eyes
June 27, 2020 - I should have known this moth, which I found perched on the cedar shingles by the kitchen porch light, almost instantly.
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Mystery solved
June 19, 2020 - When I first noticed this clear-winged insect working the collection of sedum flowers that carpet the area near our driv...
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Faux H-bird
July 24, 2019 - Next month, I have a public walk coming up at one of my favorite "gardens": Avalonia's Preston Nature Preserve. Without...
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In the loop... er
July 18, 2019 - Once again, the kitchen porch lights have been good to me, to say nothing of providing the goad that ensures continuing...
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Hot-blooded flier
February 05, 2019 - I tend to think of moths as warm-weather friends, but the truth is definitely otherwise. Some incredibly hardy moths not...
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Cold but hot
November 18, 2018 - Annoyingly, I've had no time recently to do much more than walk to the mailbox and back... not exactly a way to fulfill...
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Armies of the afternoon
October 21, 2018 - If I'd been living in the South, this caterpillar would have been all too familiar. David Wagner's guide to moth and but...
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Goldenrod turbulence
September 25, 2018 - One of my favorite ongoing projects is to comb the goldenrods for caterpillars and then, after I've found and photograph...
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Mini-hummer
June 06, 2018 - With the Dame's Rocket flower heads in full glory, I'm almost obsessively watching the blossom show in the hope that I'l...
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Incipient endgame
September 30, 2017 - Several days ago, I wrote about my happy discovery of a gorgeous Brown-hooded Owlet caterpillar munching on the goldenro...
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Kitty-pillar
September 22, 2017 - Sometimes, you're just in the right place at the right time... and you're paying attention to the right things. So it wa...
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Magical mimic
July 30, 2017 - A week ago, I highlighted one of my favorite moths, a Hummingbird Clearwing, that I found working my daughter's Goosenec...
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Looper revealed
July 05, 2017 - Most of today was spent trying frantically to finish up writing projects, so the trekking notebook was essentially a bla...
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The night of the Polyphemus
June 09, 2017 - I almost missed this miracle. It was getting on towards midnight, the Sox had somehow hung on to win over Detroit—a diff...
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Unwelcome visitors
November 26, 2016 - A couple of evenings after the guests departed, usually via the kitchen porch door, I walked outside to listen for Barre...
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Masterful mimic
August 20, 2016 - On a still-hot but overcast morning, I drove up to the Preston Nature Preserve to help lead an Avalonia public walk thro...
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Lichen mimic
June 01, 2016 - I managed to get a long-ish bike ride in today, and on my way up the hill towards home, I noticed something on the road.
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Winter... in Miami
February 01, 2016 - This is a set-up, right? A rabbi, a priest, and a groundhog walk into a bar and... OK, tomorrow is the "whistlepig's" bi...
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Asteroid arrival
September 14, 2015 - If I had my life to live over, I would have become an environmental biology teacher and spent my career informing kids a...
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Underwing season
August 23, 2015 - Given that the anti-Lyme medication I'm on has left me more vulnerable to horrendous sunburning than is typical—when my...
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White on black
July 23, 2015 - One of the best places to making observations, besides on my daily treks, is to just walk out the kitchen door and, at n...
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Moth magnet
July 15, 2015 - National Moth Week, an endeavor designed to "celebrate the beauty, life cycles, and habitats of moths" around the world,...
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No Thanksgiving moths
November 25, 2014 - I've been looking for the moths represented by the two at the top and middle of the image for a couple of weeks now, and...
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The underwings arrive
August 28, 2014 - Underwings, so named as a group because their hind wings are a complete counter to the patterning of their front wings,...
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