I found this beautiful moth on the same excursion to Wahkiakum County where Morgan and I found the committee of…
Due to a variety of reasons, mostly having to do with general laziness and a desire to spend the hours…
The first time I saw a Zale minerea was on the most spectacular night of mothing I’ve ever had. The temperature on…
These beautiful moths in the family Erebidae are not native to our continent. Instead they were imported as biocontrol for…
This beautiful erebid moth is the only member of the genus Pyrrharctia. It’s larvae are the common banded wooly bear…
One of the unexpected pleasures of having this website has been meeting people I otherwise wouldn’t have known. Such is…
When I was at Mike and Sue’s, in the midst of the charred landscape of the Holiday Farm fire, they…
This was a brand new Hypena sp. for me, a group of Erebidae moths with the common name of snout moths. This…
There are several genera of moths which overwinter, hibernating as adults. But I had never found any that were doing…
Arctia caja (Great Tiger Moth)This is a large (FW length 27-32mm), colorful, and strikingly patterned moth in the family Erebidae.…