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Brown and white speckled moth
Copyright © 2004 Lynette Schimming

Brown and white speckled moth
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
March 21, 2004
my guess is I IDd this by looking at Bob Patterson's site.
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Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 25 February, 2005 - 6:23am
Last updated 22 April, 2008 - 8:35am

Nolinae for sure
...and Nola ovilla seems like a good match. On the page by Bob Patterson that you referred to, he says "I think it is possible that two species are represented here." I agree. The top row of 4 photos (all taken in April) look like your specimen, which I think is N. ovilla, and the ones on the bottom row look different. In fact, the third one (shot on April 23rd) looks like Nola triquetrana to me.
Lynn Scott gives dates in May for N. ovilla in the Ottawa area. It makes sense that Bob's dates are earlier (April) for Maryland, and your date of late March is also reasonable because you're further south than Bob.
Meganola species fly later (June and July in Ontario), and I think that's what the other photos are on Bob's bottom row.
… Robin McLeod, 16 May, 2005 - 2:58am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks again Robin.
… Lynette Schimming, 16 May, 2005 - 5:31am login or register to post comments

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