Silver-Gray Tortricid Moth
This small silver moth was on our house siding near the porch light on May 17, 2010. It was trying to hide its head under the siding. This is the best picture I could get of the head. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleSparganothis Fruitworm Moth
This moth was drawn to our porch light on August 1, 2010, and obligingly hung out on our house siding. This looks to me like a Sparganothis Fruitworm moth, Sparganothis sulfureana. These have the right...
View ArticleTortricid Moth Eggs, and Little Frogs
Sandy found this patch of green eggs on a lilac leaf on July 21, 2013. The patch was about a centimeter in diameter (about the size of a fingerprint). I tried keeping them to raise up, but they never...
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Miscellaneous Micromoth One-Shots – Early Summer 2014
For every larger moth drawn to our porch light, there are generally close to a dozen little "micromoths" scattered about. A lot of these only give me one shot at a photo, as they fly off as soon as the...
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White Triangle Tortrix
This little orange moth with a white triangle on its wings was on the outside of one of our windows on June 12, 2015.
View ArticleGray Tortricid Moth
I’ve put off posting this tortricid moth from May 18, 2015 because I wasn’t sure that I’d be able to narrow it down very far. It has one of the common Tortricidae body shapes, but this is a very...
View ArticleUglynest Caterpillar Moth
This smallish reddish-brown moth was at our porch light on August 1, 2016. It’s pretty clearly one of the Tortricids, a large family of small-to-medium-sized moths that generally have that particular...
View ArticleOrange Speckled Moth – Lesser All-Green Leafroller
This almost shockingly orange little moth came to our porch light on July 5, 2020. It is one of the tortricid moths, which are smallish moths with this particular round-shouldered shape. Specifically,...
View ArticleBrown Tortricid Moth with Triangular White Marks on Wings
Here’s a small brown moth that was at our porch light on June 25, 2019. It looks like a Tortricid moth. This is a large family of smallish moths that mostly seem to have caterpillars that are...
View ArticleTiny Yellow Caterpillar
I found this on Sandy’s shoulder after we came back from a walk in the woods on July 30, 2022. This picture was taken with it on a paper towel, and it is just a bit longer than the width of a dimple...
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