First Moth Stakeout of 2018

Five moth-ers met east of Norman on Wednesday evening, April 18 for some dedicated mothing. It was cool and breezy with lots of Crane Flies, but we had a pretty good haul of close to 20 species of moths:

3+ Festive Midget (FOS)
3+ Light Brown Apple
2+ Juniper Seed
2 Grateful Midget
2 Darker Moodna
1 Fall Webworm
1 Green Cloverworm
1 Large Necklace (FOS)
1 Common Eupithecia
1 Nais Tiger ***
1 Belted Grass-Veneer ^
1 Harvey’s Prominent ***
1 Explicit Arches ^
1 Common Gray ^
1 Durrantia piperatella ***
1 Confused Woodgrain ***
1 Gretchena sp. ??? ***
1 Pale-winged Midget ??? ***

I returned home to find the porch light on and 3 additional species of moths nearby:
1 Dark-spotted Palthis (FOS)
1 White-lined Sphinx
1 Cucullia laetifica ***

FOS = First of Season/Spring
^ = lifer (new species) for me, personally
*** = new for our "Moths of Oklahoma" project
??? = not fully identified to species yet

Posted on April 19, 2018 09:46 PM by zdufran