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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Noctuina » Cerastis » Reddish Speckled Dart - Hodges#10994 (Cerastis tenebrifera)
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What moth please - Cerastis tenebrifera
Copyright © 2010 Cathy Wilson

What moth please - Cerastis tenebrifera
Loudonville, Ashland County, Ohio, USA
March 26, 2010
The dorsal view is not good. The moth was doing a constant shimmy.

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What moth please - Cerastis tenebrifera What moth please - Cerastis tenebrifera
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Contributed by Cathy Wilson on 30 March, 2010 - 10:40am
Last updated 10 April, 2010 - 10:07am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 10 April, 2010 - 10:07am login or register to post comments

Not an ID but
check out Cerastis tenebrifera (Reddish Speckled Dart - Hodges#10994)?
… John R. Maxwell, 30 March, 2010 - 12:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, John!
That's a match!
… Cathy Wilson, 30 March, 2010 - 12:12pm login or register to post comments

Sometimes
I wonder if some moths are called "Quaker" because they shimmy?
… John R. Maxwell, 30 March, 2010 - 11:51am login or register to post comments

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