Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY PICTURES #107, 2 by C_A_Ivy

C_A_Ivy wrote:
nuts, you' re funny. Us common folks come up with the common names of bugs. The olive shaded bird dropping moth is common here and its host is ragweed. But my favorite little moth at this time of year is Feather edged petrophila. It is found near streams and creeks and on aquatic vegetation where its larvae eat diatoms and algae from stream bed rocks. The hindwing has multiple spots that look like spider eyes to me. These moths are plentiful this year and I expect that it is because the streams have not had scouring floods.
Excuse the moth pics since the butterflies aren't cooperating currently. But my two monarch kittens grew into big cats and pupated yesterday so Monarchs soon to be.