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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Scoliopteryginae » Scoliopterygini » Scoliopteryx » The Herald - Hodges#8555 (Scoliopteryx libatrix)
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Moth - Scoliopteryx libatrix
Copyright © 2006 Bill Johnson

Moth - Scoliopteryx libatrix
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
August 22, 2006
The colors on this moth are amazing. Any ID available for it? Thanks.
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Contributed by Bill Johnson on 26 August, 2006 - 11:45pm
Last updated 27 August, 2006 - 1:26am

This is a GREAT photo...
...of a beautiful moth.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 4 August, 2009 - 6:14am login or register to post comments

8555 -- The Herald Moth -- Scoliopteryx libatrix
... known for overwintering in caves. Carroll Rudy and a naturalist in Wisconsin have discovered a "colony" of Hops Vine Moths, Hypena humuli, utilizing a cave (along with four species of bats) in one of their nature preserves.
… Bob Patterson, 27 August, 2006 - 12:27am login or register to post comments

 
The Herald Moth
Thanks, Bob. Even while I was puuting this image up, I kept thinking that I'd seen this moth before in my stock of images, but just couldn't place where. Your description finally reminded me. The Caves. I'm putting on the site tonight, this moth , along with a few others that I photographed inside a sandstone cave in Red Wing, MN., in 1998. I look forward to any more info you may have about them.
… Bill Johnson, 27 August, 2006 - 11:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Moved
to guide.
… Chuck Entz, 27 August, 2006 - 1:26am login or register to post comments

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