Daily Archives: March 12, 2014

These photographs introduce our local Flower Moths (Family Noctuidae, Subfamily Heliothinae).  Shown here are examples of 4 common genera and 7 different species I’ve found and photographed in northeastern North Dakota.

Try to identify a few of these moths by matching them with images found on pages 422-427 of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America?  (Individuals in this group may be a little easier to identify than some others I’ve posted recently.) 

There are some very colorful moths in the Subfamily Heliothinae.  Click on this link to find many more splendid examples of North American Flower Moths archived in the Moth Photographers Guide: http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/pinned.php?plate=34&size=m&sort=h

These small moths represent our common local Litter Moths (Family Erebidae, Subfamily Herminiinae).  Shown here are examples of 6 genera and 14 species that I’ve found and photographed in northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota.

Can you can identify a few of these moths by matching them with images found on pages 310-321 of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America?  Why not give it a try! 

Are you ready to be bewildered?  If so, then please click on this link to find many excellent photographs showing important taxonomic features of many North American species of Litter Moths archived in the Moth Photographers Guide: http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/pinned.php?plate=24&size=m&sort=h