"Types of Moths": How many have you seen?

[broacher]

@Mercedes-Fletcher

I’ve made a fair number of moth observations and I find myself thinking back to it at times

Great idea! Maybe June 26 could become…
‘Moth-er’s Day’?

Since I’m still relatively ‘shiny in new’ (at least in iNat terms) my moth obs are sadly limited. In fact, here they are. Just two! But to join in the fun…

That one, you know…

And this lucky recent find I would put somewhere between ‘large friend’ and ‘stuffed toy’:

[broacher]

@fffffffff

With a caterpillar from nightmares!

Wow. It’s like evolution took a much needed summer vacation and they put in an intern – HR Giger.

[Mercedes-Fletcher]

A lot of the Prominents are “stuffed toy” material. They’re one of my favorite families!

[Mercedes-Fletcher]

Welcome to iNat! I’m sure you’ll find more moths in no time. If you have a porch with a light source, just check around it a few times every night and you’ll find plenty! Congrats on the large friend by the way, she’s gorgeous. Finding a Cecropia is definitely on my bucket list.

[dull2shinetoo]

Bird Poop or bird’s treat?

“making my way back to you, girl”

Little White Lichen here, meet my large friend Tuliptree Silkworm

that large glass eyed monster that hunts here rarely appreciates me

we are not sure that it is a Battaristis but we will call it n.sp Battaristis for now

many Tortricids, the ones with things on their things

even the stuffing has stuffing

I speak an ancient language

I chose a different green, my first green moth and favorite

Thanks for the opportunity to share! More than a decade and thousands of moths later, it is enjoyable to humbly recount the journey in human terms.

[Mercedes-Fletcher]

That’s a good choice for a favorite green! Looks like he/she could pass for a stuffed toy as well! All wonderful moths here :)

[jfox16]

Bird poop:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/122899725

Gets wifi:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/34051686

Large friend:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/85060474

Beautiful pattern, probably:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/119832668

Impossible to ID to species:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/58313175

That one, you know, with the thing:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/59651836

Stuffed toy:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/53701835

So dizzingly complex:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7111286

Ooh, green:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/58126893

[natemarchessault]

Oof, serves me right for sticking my snout where it doesn’t belong

[yayemaster]

Bird poop:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/83845561
Gets wifi:
None! I guess I live too far from cell towers.
Large friend: (if it grew up)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/82195151
Beautiful pattern, probably:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/65558102
Impossible to ID to species:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/122100066
That one, you know:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123476299
Stuffed toy:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/76383946
So dizzyingly complex:
I haven’t seen any like that
Ooh, green:(sort of)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50903186
I probably need to go mothing more.

[mamestraconfigurata]

@dull2shinetoo

Bird Poop or bird’s treat?

Both?

[w4v]

Haha, yeah. When someone identified the moth for me I immediately looked at its species page and saw the unusual caterpillar xD I think it would be pretty cool to see it in real life.

[christiansw]

Bird poop:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120542582

Beautiful pattern, probably:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/122463292

Impossible to ID to species:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/122692645

Stuffed toy:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120041208

So dizzingly complex:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121908230

Ooh, green:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123547317

[Mercedes-Fletcher]

Wow that prominent is adorable!

[susanne-kasimir]

bird poop - Acontia lucida
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/115778408
gets wifi - Lycia hirtaria
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108614390
large friend: Arctia angelica
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/76749429
beautiful pattern, probably: Euzophera lunullela
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/87560483
impossible to ID to species: Idaea
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/118706326
stuffed toy: Peridea anceps
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110782520
Ooh, green: Phaiogramma etruscaria
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123199672
Is there a moth?: Minucia lunaris
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110421191

[jasonhernandez74]

Impossible to ID to species?

(https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/115291895)

[egordon88]

[Adding to my previous comment]

Bird poop: Genus Ponometia from Mountain View, Alburquerque, NM, US on June 12, 2022 at 09:56 AM by Elliott Gordon · iNaturalist
Impossible species: Genus Acrolophus (Grass Tubeworm Moths) on June 09, 2022 at 09:29 PM by Elliott Gordon · iNaturalist
Beautiful pattern, no doubt: Lithariapteryx abroniaeella (Sand Verbena Lithariapteryx) on May 28, 2022 at 12:08 PM by Elliott Gordon · iNaturalist
Complex: Protorthodes alfkenii on May 26, 2022 at 09:33 PM by Elliott Gordon · iNaturalist

[egordon88]

I’ve completed the sweep of sun moth genera, Heliodinidae, in my New Mexico pollinator garden. Since we’re sharing moths …

Shiniest Aetole tripunctella (Brilliant Sunspur)
Shiny Lithariapteryx abroniaeella (Sand Verbena Lithariapteryx)
Blurry Embola albaciliella (tentative)
Blobby Genus Neoheliodines

[carol-in-maine]

That’s exactly what I say to myself whenever a green Moth visits the porch light- “ooh, green!”

[fffffffff]

Wi-fi+large friend in one:

Beautiful pattern, probably

Impossible to id to species

The one with the thing and name hard to remeber

Stuffed toy

Complex

Green

An addition, “the smallest dissapointment”, when you expected it to be huge, but it ended up being small:

[klyle161]

Other categories:
“I just like the name” (lol!)
Funereal Duskywing Erynnis funeralis