Difference between Yellow-striped and Sweetpotato Armyworm Moths - Spodoptera

Nicely done, CB!

We need more of this.

… Ron Hemberger, 6 December, 2013 - 10:15pm

Thanks, Ron

I got tired of getting these two wrong ... then I saw Maury's comment on one of the Sweetpotato Armyworm moths. While there are other characteristics, that little tear-shaped "sweetpotato" is the clincher. Like the difference between a Clover Hayworm Moth and a Yellow-fringed Dolichomia comes down to one has a yellow outer margin and the other, a purple outer margin

… Robert Lord Zimlich, 6 December, 2013 - 11:18pm

Those clinchers, which I now will call sweet potatoes ...

...are the first step to making strictly visual IDs the order of the day. Tony Thomas - remember him? - had a vision of what he called "Flies through a Lens" extending the Butterflies through Binoculars concept into a larger world. I believe we're moving in that direction here...and hope we continue at an increasing rate. Thanks again!

… Ron Hemberger, 6 December, 2013 - 11:43pm

Yep ...

I remember Tony-2. It's ashamed he left ... seemed quite knowledgeable

… Robert Lord Zimlich, 7 December, 2013 - 12:45am

Pogue (2002) has good descriptions in PDF

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… Maury J. Heiman, 6 December, 2013 - 8:22pm

Thanks, Maury

As you know, these two gave me fits for the longest

… Robert Lord Zimlich, 10 April, 2014 - 12:50pm