Well I've scrolled through a gazillion, and nothing looks right....It doesn't look like Lacinpolia renigera...(I've already caught one of those this year) This moth is bigger and the green is more obvious.
The little scroll-through trick that claypa told me about works great....I just didn't find the right moth. I keep going back and scrolling through the Noctuidae family...they seem the closest....but there's about a trillion of them...and so many sub-classes and tribes.
Every time I look at this page I see different likely candidates.... gotta be close though:
http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/Files/Live/Living43F.shtml
Sorry, I posted the wrong link, it should be right now
This message was edited Jun 17, 2007 1:43 PM
http://bugguide.net/node/view/49787
Maybe this Manto Tussock moth
I was searching a bit earlier, for 'green moth' /s on the bugguide.net .. and remembered spotting a similar feller.
See, if s/he comes close, Mel > http://bugguide.net/node/view/30138
- Magpye
Gooooooodness .. They all start lookin' alike after awhile! .. Hee ..
* Forget my goofy suggestion, Mel - - for I think (and agree), that Claypa may have him tagged perfectly!!
- Magpye
Magpye, I loooked at that moth for twenty minutes... what's funny is the pattern is very similar to melody's moth, but almost upside down?!?!
I had to turn melody's over just to try to make sense of the pictures... here it is in case it helps anybody
I suppose there's a way that I could have removed the copyright ? I didn't think about it, sorry.
If I get a call from National Geographic or somebody I promise to tell them whose pic it is!
.. LOL ..
Claypa ..
Peering at such astonishingly similar critters, truly tires these old eyes out, most quickly!
All the rest of you (and Mel) .. will hafta make the judgement call on this mossy-greenish feller, I tell ya. .. heehee
- Magpye
What about this one?
http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/Files/Live/Species/8000/8298.shtml
The actual colors are sort of hard to distinguish..some folks are photographing at night...or using a flash.
My guy was done in daylight with no flash, and I tried to find similar images so that the colors would look true.
I've got a contact at Western Kentucky University who I use when I really get stumped...(doesn't hurt to have an etymologist right here in my backyard) .I might shoot this over to him.
OK gang....got a reply from my handy-dandy lep expert. He's been in Italy all summer and just got back...(lucky dude!)
He says that my moth is Dasychira plagiata......and is absolutely thrilled. Seems that there's only been one other report of this moth in the state and it was in 1962! He's elated that I've actually got an image, date, and location for the creature. Can't wait to see what else I have up my sleeve.
So, the mystery is solved!
oh wow Big Congrats Melody!!!!!!!!!
That's great! What fun.
http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/Files/Live/Species/8000/8304.shtml
You're right about the colors, and your picture is clearer, more than even the pinned moth pics.
Thanks ya'll. I was quite pleased too.
My contact is putting together a database of live shot images for the state of KY. I'm going to help with this project by contributing some images and sighting data. (all of my images are tagged so I have that info at my fingertips anyway) Kind of exciting isn't it?
Thanks for the help on this moth...Magpye, you too...ya'll both help tons every week.
