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Photo#134037
Wonderful Underwing - Catocala mira

Wonderful Underwing - Catocala mira
Angelica, Allegany County, New York, USA
August 3, 2007
A comparison of lighting. Identical/same moth taken under mercury vapor/flash lighting, one on sheet/one on screen. Shows how much the same moth can vary in coloration and can be somewhat misleading when trying to ID, least this is what I have found.
Gary

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Wonderful Underwing - Catocala mira Catocala mira

Moved
Moved from Underwings.

This photo
contains no sheet, although the following one does. Maybe you could clarify.

 
Ooops
Must have been thinking about other photo I submitted.

Sorry about that,
Gary

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