Too cute!
Large maple spanworm
I’m planning on setting up a white sheet in my yard with a UV bulb and some food to hopefully attract more moths, so I should be able to get some better pictures soon.
My favorite day-flying moths that behave a lot like large bees or small hummingbirds, and are always fun to watch (though I don’t see them as often as I would like):
Snowberry clearwing
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125999294
Bedstraw hawkmoth
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/130135092
I just recorded my first snowberry Clearwing 4 days ago. They are so much smaller than the hummingbird Clearwings I see annually.
I was holding a leaf of the lilac it visited, it was windy that day and it seemed totally unaware of me.
I know I saw a moth very much like the bedstraw, though it was before iNat. It was resting on the ground and quivered its wings and made sound. Stunning.
My favourite moth observation is this one of Ecnomophlebia argyrospila It’s the only live record I’m aware of and the only recorded sighting since 1927
when looking for local species, i filter out papillions, and you can do the same in projects by excluding that taxon
Hyles livornica i saw recently, they are so pretty
I was being harassed by a wasp while taking these they couldve been better
Everyone too tired from staying up late to post? 
Microleps are not often discussed, and I don’t know how common it is for someone to have in mind a specific microlep that they want to see. But there one that I have been wanting to get, and last night I did: an Indian-meal moth. You can see that even though it is tiny and in shades of brown, its wing pattern is visually striking and distinctive.
According to Wikipedia, it does not occur natively in India, but was named after its propensity to infest cornmeal, which at that time was called Indian meal. As you might imagine, finding one is not simply a matter of going to the right habitat, given that its usual habitat is pantries with stored flour. I used my flour a little over a week ago, and my cornmeal a few days before that, and I didn’t see any signs of infestation then, so maybe it was a wandering disperser?
Given that this is a synanthrope which has spread around the world, I wonder what its original habitat was? The information I find is mostly about pest control and does not say anything about where this moth was originally native, but it must have been native somewhere, once.
Spotted the prettiest moth I’ve ever seen a few weeks back. I wasn’t sure if it was alive so I gave it a little nudge and it flashed its colors at me. I almost thought it was a spotted lanternfly until I got a better look at it, though.
Antiblemma rubida from Costa Rica looks almost like a neon sign.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/255737497
Is that its eye? It almost looks like a hawk’s eye instead of an insect’s.
Yeah it is, it just looks like that i didnt even use a flash