Daily Archives: March 22, 2014

These photographs introduce our Swordgrass Moths and Xylenine Sallows (Family Noctuidae, Subfamily Noctuinae, Tribe Xylenini).  Excluded from this display are the Pinion Moths (genus Lithophane) because that group was already introduced in an earlier post on this site (on 27 February 2014).  The 21 images of moths shown here represent 15 genera and 19 different species found and photographed in either northeastern North Dakota or northwestern Minnesota.   

Why don’t you try to identity a few of these moths by matching these images with those found on pages 462-463 and 470-481 of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America.  

Click on the link below to view many other fine photographs of Swordgrass Moths and Xylenine Sallows displayed in the Moth Photographer’s Guide: http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/fast.php?plate=62.0&size=l&sort=p

These photographs introduce our local Underwings, Zales, and Related Owlets (Family Erebidae, Subfamilies Erebinae, Rivulinae, and Scoliopteryginae).  The 14 images shown here represent five genera and 12 different moth species, all of which were found and photographed in either northeastern North Dakota or northwestern Minnesota.   

See if you can identity these moths by matching images shown here with those found on pages 326-363 of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America.  

There are many species of Underwing and Zale Moths (genus Catocala and Zale) in North America.  Click on the link below to find photographs of these displayed in the Moth Photographer’s Guide: http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/slow.php?plate=53.0

These photographs introduce our local Snout Moths (Family Erebidae, Subfamily Hypeninae).  Moths shown here represent four different species and one genus, all found and photographed in northeastern North Dakota or northwestern Minnesota.   

See if you can identity these moths by matching images shown here with those found on pages 322-327 of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America.  

Click on the link below to view examples of these and other species of Hypeninae archived in the Moth Photographer’s Guide: http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/fast.php?plate=24&page=6&size=s&sort=h