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By Chris Grinter, on March 27th, 2014% Things have been quiet here for quite a while – mostly because I’ve been inundated with work (always a good thing). But I have also recently joined the party eight years late to the Twitter train. For daily images of cool insects please follow me over there @skepticalmoth. Of course some stories require . → Read More: Follow me on Twitter Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on October 21st, 2013% This beautiful animal is a moth I reared from Quercus palmeri down in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. It’s in the family Gracillariidae and most likely in the genus Acrocercops – according to Dave Wagner it may represent a new species, but that’s not an uncommon thing with small moths. It was fairly abundant, so . → Read More: Monday Moth Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on September 25th, 2013% Have you seen the beautiful photos taken by Sam Droege for the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab? Ever wondered how he got those beautiful shots? Tomorrow, September 26th at 1pm eastern time, Sam will be doing a LIVE tutorial on YouTube on how to take these photos and how to do it on . → Read More: Specimen Imaging Demonstration – Live! Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on December 10th, 2012% Welcome to the new home of the Skeptical Moth! I know updating blogrolls isn’t all that fun, but thank you for sticking with me. And since it’s Monday – here is an Automeris io (Saturniidae) from southern Illinois, May 2012. Cheers and Happy New Year! Like this:Like . → Read More: Welcome To The New Location! Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on March 31st, 2012% On a brisk 37 degree morning in Northern Illinois I decided to dust off my camera and explore the progress of “spring”. I hit Rollins Savanna Forest Preserve by 6:30am, just in time for first light to melt the patchy frost. A week and a half ago temps were pushing the upper 80’s and summer . → Read More: Prairie on a Cold Spring Morning Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on December 1st, 2011% The first annual National Moth Week will be this summer, July 23-29, 2012! This is the first event of its kind in the US (it has been popular in the UK for quite some time) and is an attempt to encourage people to head outside and explore their often overlooked moth fauna. The US has . → Read More: National Moth Week 2012 Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on November 19th, 2011% For all intents and purposes this looks like a blue butterfly (as in subfamily Polyommatinae)… it’s very, very blue after all. But assumptions based on color would lead you down the incorrect road; as it turns out this butterfly is actually a species copper. There are subtle difference in wing shape and probably venation, but . → Read More: A Copper Butterfly in Disguise Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on October 3rd, 2011% Gnophaela vermiculata pair This Monday moth is an Arctiinae, Gnophaela vermiculata. These beautiful day flying moths were abundant on yellow Helianthus flowers around 9000′ in the Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico. Caterpillars feed on bluebells, but the adults prefer the highest quality nectar source in the area – which fortunately makes for . → Read More: Monday Moth Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on August 29th, 2011% Schinia villosa This Monday’s moth is a duo of Schinia villosa (Noctuidae) resting on what I am assuming is their host plant (Erigeron sp.). I snapped this shot around 9,000 feet up on the Kaibab plateau in Northern Arizona last month. A fire must have burned the area a few years ago because . → Read More: Monday Moth Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on August 22nd, 2011% Last week Jim Hayden guessed the moth I posted was an Australian Oecophoridae. It was a good guess because there are so many large and stunning moths in this family from Australia. One of the best has to be this one, Wingia lambertella (Oecophoridae), captured on Black Mountain in Canberra October 23, 1955 (CAS collections). → Read More: Monday Moth Like this: Like Loading...
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Dé Luain Leamhan Ag Chris Grinter, 3 Deireadh Fómhair, 2011 Péire Gnophaela vermiculata Is é seo an dé luain moth an Arctiinae, Gnophaela vermiculata. These beautiful day flying moths were abundant on yellow Helianthus flowers around 9000′ sa Santa Fe Náisiúnta Foraoise, Nua-Mheicsiceo. Boilb beatha ar coinnle corra, ach is fearr na daoine fásta an fhoinse neachtar chaighdeán is airde sa cheantar – which fortunately makes for easy and attractive photo subjects. Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ...