A Lucky Find
This particular moth may or may not have been a lucky find. I couldn't get it identified beyond the geometer moth family. My real lucky find was www.butterflyidentification.org. I was just putzing around trying to identify some of my finds, and coming up empty. I shot them an email with 8 images, and they responded back with some great help.
Sure, a few of them, they needed more details - like the one above - but some others ended up being identifiable.
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| White-striped Black Moth |
Apparently, this little guy is also from the geometer moths. It was found at Snoqualmie Pass in July just as I started up the ski hill trail.
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| Divided Olethreutes Moth |
Same hike, a little farther up the hill. This was a puzzling pic, because of the lighting, which makes it look a little blue! This moth is in the leafroller family.
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| Western Tent-Caterpillar |
You know these caterpillars! In some summers, we get crazy outbreaks of these, and they can completely devour the foliage off of plants. It sounds like more often than not, trees rebound well enough from the infestation - that was my experience when I had them on my property in some arbor vitaes. It would have been a weird year if I hadn't seen these. . . not that this hasn't been a weird year!
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| Single-dotted Wave Moth |
And the final moth for the list - a Single-dotted Wave Moth. This is another geometer moth, which seems to make sense, as geometers are a huge family. Hopefully I'll have some opportunities to find a few more families as I move along with this.
There's still a little backlog of flowers and mushrooms to get through, and it's a rainy fall day right now... so hopefully I'll be adding more soon!
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