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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-13--12407573 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Angus, On Nov 15, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Angus MacLean wrote: > I've uploaded a number of Moth & Caterpillar photos to my site. =20 > Some have been tentatively identified but most are a mystery to me. =20= > These can be seen at: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/58321572@N00/1360915459/in/=20 > set-72157594229470230/ > As before click on the right-hand thumbnail in the Moths & =20 > Caterpillar Set for the next photo. > > 1. Moth - Unknown2. Very tiny but may be identifiable. > 2. Moth - Unknown3. May be a Tussock Moth. > 3. Moth - Unknown4. May be an Underwing Moth. Not an underwing moth (Catocala sp.) but probably in the Noctuidae > 4. Moth - Unknown1. Perhaps an Agonopterix. > 5 & 6. Sphinx Moth - Which Species? This is not a sphinx moth, it is Autographa bimaculata (Stephens) =20 [Noctuidae] http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/Files/JV/Noctuids/=20 3PlusiNoli/JV8911-300-35%20Autographa%20bimaculata.jpg > 7. Moth8 > 8. White-banded Toothed Carpet Moth. Epirrhoe alternata (M=FCller) [Geometridae] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Epirrhoe.alternata.7126.jpg > 9 & 10. Spotted Thyris. Thyris maculata Harr. [Thyrididae] > 11 Clover Hayworm Moth. Hypsopygia costalis (Fabricius) [Pyralidae] > 12. Caterpillar sp2. > 13. Yellow Bear Caterpillar. > 14. Large Yellow Underwing. Noctua pronuba (Linnaeus) [Noctuidae] > 15. Moth5. > 16. Moth6. Caenurgina crassiuscula (Haworth) [Noctuidae] http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/Files/JV/Catocal/=20 JV8738f-300-38%20Caenurgina%20crassiuscula.jpg > 17. Moth7. Not a moth, but a skipper, Erynnis icelus (Scudder & Burgess) =20 [Hesperidae] > 18 19 & 20. Hummingbird Moth (Sorry, I like them!). Hemaris thysbe (Fabricius) [Sphingidae] > 21. Caterpillar3. > 22 & 23. Caterpillar2. > 24. Large Underwing Moth...Same as #14. Noctua pronuba (Linnaeus) [Noctuidae] > 25. Northern Burdock Borer (perhaps). Papaipema arctivorens Hampson [Noctuidae] > 26. Cecropia Moth. Polyphemus Moth, Antheraea polyphemus (Cram.) [Saturnidae] > 27. Caterpillar5. > 28. Moth9 > 29. Moth10 Caenurgina crassiuscula (Haworth) [Noctuidae] > 30. Moth7a ...same moth as #7. Erynnis icelus (Scudder & Burgess) [Hesperidae] > > Angus<Moth---Unknown7.jpg> Cheers! Chris Christopher Majka Nova Scotia Museum, 1747 Summer St., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada =20 B3H 3A6 c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca --Apple-Mail-13--12407573 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Hi Angus,<div><br><div><div>On Nov 15, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Angus MacLean = wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I've uploaded a number of Moth = & Caterpillar photos to my site. Some have been tentatively = identified but most are a mystery to me. These can be seen at:</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58321572@N00/1360915459/in/set-721575= 94229470230/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/58321572@N00/1360915459/in/set-= 72157594229470230/</a></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">As before click on the = right-hand thumbnail in the Moths & Caterpillar Set for the next = photo.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">1. Moth - Unknown2. Very tiny but may be = identifiable.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">2. Moth - Unknown3. May be a = Tussock Moth.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">3. Moth - Unknown4. May be an = Underwing Moth.</div></blockquote><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Not an underwing moth = (<i>Catocala</i> sp.) but probably in the Noctuidae</div><br><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">4. Moth - Unknown1. Perhaps an = Agonopterix.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">5 & 6. Sphinx Moth - Which = Species?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is not a sphinx = moth, it is <i>Autographa bimaculata</i> (Stephens) = [Noctuidae]</div><div><br class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a= = href=3D"http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/Files/JV/Noctuids/3Plusi= Noli/JV8911-300-35%20Autographa%20bimaculata.jpg">http://mothphotographers= group.msstate.edu/Files/JV/Noctuids/3PlusiNoli/JV8911-300-35%20Autographa%= 20bimaculata.jpg</a></div><br><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">7. Moth8</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">8. = White-banded Toothed Carpet Moth.</div></blockquote><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><i>Epirrhoe alternata</i> = (M=FCller) [Geometridae]</div><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a = href=3D"http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Epirrhoe.alternata.7126.jp= g">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Epirrhoe.alternata.7126.jpg</a>= </div><br><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">9 & 10. = Spotted Thyris.</div></blockquote><div><i><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></i></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = style=3D"font: 12.0px Arial"><i><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Helvetica">Thyris maculata</font>&l