Bug on fencepost, Fresh Pond, Cambridge, MA - Operophtera brumata

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Bug on fencepost, Fresh Pond, Cambridge, MA - Operophtera brumata -

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
November 22, 2015
Size: half inch or less

Contributed by saswwp on 22 November, 2015 - 1:49pm
Last updated 18 December, 2015 - 12:24pm

Moved

Moved from Wingless Female Geometrids.

… metrioptera, 18 December, 2015 - 12:23pm

Moved

Moved from Geometrid Moths.

… Kyhl Austin, 16 December, 2015 - 8:51pm

Moved

Moved from Moths.

… Kyhl Austin, 15 December, 2015 - 5:19pm

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Moved from ID Request.

… Kyhl Austin, 14 December, 2015 - 4:32pm

appears to be a female Operophtera brumata

a flightless moth

… metrioptera, 22 November, 2015 - 1:50pm

Operophtera brumata

Thanks! I wonder if it is newly emerged (not as much "fur" as in your posted picture) and if those are eggs she is examining... --sas

… saswwp, 22 November, 2015 - 2:48pm

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