A Big Night for Moths (Muths)

Back on March 4 or 5, 2013, for the first time in a while, Ray decided to photograph moths on the barn windows at night.   On that night, 4 or 5, Ray photopgraphed the ten largest moths, handy.  Later, through the morning of March 9th, Ray attempted to identify his moths on Bugguide.  Eight of those moths Ray identified by himself.   Yet twain of those moth identifications eluded Ray.  And at last, Ray gave up on those twain, begging for help on the Bugguide id request line.

The twain Ray could not id by himself are Aon noctuiformis and Lactura subfervens.  Here they are.  Aon first, then the Lactura. 

Now that Ray has, with help,  identified all ten of those original moths to his satisfaction, tonight, Ray shall seek out a new group of larger moths at the windows of the barn.  If there are no larger moths, Ray may do littler moths.

The other eight species of the group, not shown, are Chimoptesis pennsylvaniana, Cissusa spadix (probably), Costaconvexa centrostrigoria, Diastichis fracturalis, Isturgia dislocaria, Maliattha synochitis, Mimoschinia rufofascialis and Platynota stultana.  Ray still needs to work out which are new CB muth records.