Friday, March 10, 2006

Carried away

Luckily this beautiful moth stayed with me to be carried outdoors. We've never seen one like this guy before, not large and not small, with copper-colored outer wings when seen from above and more bronze-colored wings underneath close to his reddish body, again when seen from above. Each of the coppery outer wings had a single dark dot on the lower and outer part. Another night there was a small moth with long wings speckled brown and black and beautiful antennae. It used to seem as though there were undifferentiated "dusty millers," clothes moths, and the occasional luna moth or cecropia moth. Now we seem to see new ones all the time. There's no moth-identification book here.

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