Nearing 500 species!

I recently purchased the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of the Southeastern North America, which includes Oklahoma. I'm sure the guide is not comprehensive of all the species we have in Oklahoma, but it is pretty thorough and there do not appear to be any gaping holes. I have been using it to identify some of the unidentified observations in our project. With a couple of those identifications and some recent observations we have now reached 495 species in the state!

The latest species addition is a Waterlily Borer Moth found by @greglasley in the southeastern corner of the state. This is a moth that probably doesn't make it much farther into the state than the eastern quarter or so.

I'm looking forward to hitting the 500 species mark and think we can do in the next month. I'm going to set up another mothing night in the next 2 weeks. Maybe that'll push us over the mark!

Posted on May 9, 2018 02:33 PM by zdufran