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Saturday, February 29, 2020

Moths: the Big and Small, the Extreme and Weird

First, the Black Witch Ascalapha Odorate, at over 6", our largest North American noctuid insect. I took the photo outside our house in Port Isabel.



You think that is one weird bug? I give you the Pearly Wood Nymph Eudryas unio. This is a one inch moth which, with wings folded, mimics a bird dropping. Ain't evolution grand?











Photo taken yesterday on a sheltered wall at Estero Llano Grande.

And finally, a Sickle-winged Skipper with its curled back wing tips.

- Gunnar

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