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My first clearwing moth. This one was visiting a large clover flower that was dying - lucky for me it seemed to really like that flower because I had time to really get down low in order to be able to shoot between a lot of weeds to capture it.
Genus Hemaris, possibly snowberry clearwing (Hemaris diffinis) which "is usually yellow and black, with black legs." www.massaudubon.org/learn/nature-wildlife/insects-arachni...
Found in an open field at Squaw Creek Park in Marion, Iowa.
Corrections appreciated.
This pretty green moth with red trim was perched on my front door this morning. I tried to get him to perch on a branch but he flew away. This is a geometrid moth and appears to be the Cyprus Emerald Moth. I noticed in bugguide that there were no images of this species taken in North Carolina but they are found in South Carolina. We are quite close to the border so I believe this is possibly the Cyprus Emerald Moth.
bugguide.net/node/view/825092/bgimage
Interesting feature of these moths is they exhibit seasonal polyphenism which means they change color with the seasons.
Put the moth trap out hoping for a descent number being trapped but alas once again the numbers were well down.
It is only thanks for flickr friends that I have managed to give them an identity as I am hopeless on insects so my appreciation for any help remains undimmed.
This is what was in the trap.
Trap was placed by honeysuckle and a flower border but even then no elephant hawk moths although it may be a bit late for them now.
Apologies to all those who took the trouble to look at and comment upon these images when I uploaded earlier.
Flickr has once again changed the ground rules so that to up load these two image I had to wait twenty minutes - far too long.
As I frequently upload up to thirty images I do not have ten hours to waste so come in flickr speed things up please.
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Sorry for the interruption, but with some help from Ken Childs, I was able to ID this one, and it's a new one for me. Not a common moth. This can be one of several different species that can only be identified by dissection, so it has to remain ID'ed at genus level.
bugguide.net/node/view/1339195
August 29, 2016
Columbia, MO
First time we have put the moth trap out and what a disappointing result.
Six moths among which was this one that I recognised.
It had lost many scales off its wing so not showing at its best but you can get the idea why it has such a suitable name.