Thursday, September 13, 2007

Cutting Edge Mothing...


I was in deepest Durham county over the weekend taking part in the annual Toronto Ornithological Club "fall field day". It was a fun event starting and ending with several beers! Our team scored 121, which was a fine effort on the day. Anyway, it is always an excuse for me to run a moth trap in the back yard of my kindly hosts. The eventual contents of the trap were a bit dross-like this time around with little of great interest. However, I did catch two nice examples of the the moth featured above - Agrotis gladiaria, Swordsman Dart. This late-flying noctuid is fairly common but I never seem to catch too many. The larva are generalists on many plants.

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