Crazy Muths from Crumby’s Past

The hard drive is practically full. When that happens, it’s finally time to do something about the ORF files. Only, the only alternative is, get shut of those enormous data hog ORF files. But while an average electric camera enthusiast fools with the RAW files; he may run across actually useful files containing unidentified muths from the past.

These pictures are from the banana feeder hey days at the CB, before the rats (Sigmodon) figured out the banana feeder. That’s correct. The rats were eating up the bananas faster than Crumby could deliver the bananas and faster than the pets could eat the rats. Rats!

What made Crumby seriously look at these old photos was, a copy of the Loxostege allectalis showing up at the window screen at night. Crumby thought. I may have seen that dern moth before . The other depicted muth is the armyworm moth (Mythimna unipuncta).

It took Crumby many moons to finally id these muths. Many!

We need to fire up the banana feeder again because the muths are generally in natural feeding poses. Assuming, moths naturally pose on bananas.