Daily Archives: April 3, 2014

These images introduce a few of our local Plume and Many-Plumed Moths (Families Pterophoridae and Alucitidae). The eight moths shown here represent eight genera and eight different species, I think, all of which were found and photographed in northeastern North Dakota or northwestern Minnesota.  These are very difficult moths to identity to the species level! 

See if you can to identity a few of these moths by matching them with images found on pages 124-131 of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. Click on the link below to find other swell images of North American Plume Moths archived in the Moth Photographer’s Guide:    http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/fast.php?plate=15.0&size=l&sort=h  

These images introduce a few of our local Sparganothid Leafrollers(Family Tortricidae, Subfamilies Torticinae, Tribe Sparganothidini). The six moths shown here represent three genera and four different species, all of which were found and photographed in northeastern North Dakota.

Try to identity a couple of these moths by matching these photographs with images found on pages 102-107 of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. Click on the link below to to view images of these and many other species of Sparganothid Leafroller Moths catalogued in the Moth Photographer’s Guide: http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/fast.php?plate=09.2&size=l&sort=h