When micros can be huge...

I was in Brooklin over the weekend enjoying the hospitality of friends who live there. The weather was perfect for swimming, drinking and mothing, though not strictly in that order. The mothing was quite good with 110 species observed, including some new micros for me. The macros were disappointingly few and far between which seems to be the way thus far this summer. Don't know why.

Anyway, here are some highlights:


Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides, Tufted Thyatirid - quite variable but this is the form I like the best.


Argyrostrotis anilis, Short-lined Chocolate - good enough to eat, though the scales do get caught between yer teeth....


Prionoxystus robinae, Carpenterworm Moth - looking for all the world like a scrap of net curtain gone astray! This is a super-micro the size of a large sphinx moth!!