Sunday Moths and …

Packard’s Wave/Cyclophora packardi

Faint-spotted Angle/Digrammia ocelinata

Citrine Sallow/Pyreferra citrombra

Now for some moth larvae: Spongy Moth/Lymantria dispar on Northern Red Oak.

This chewed up, crumped up Northern Red Oak leaf had a small caterpillar inside:

Maybe a member of the Tortricide Leafroller family. When I opened up the leaf shelter, it hurriedly escaped, dropping quickly on a line of silk… into my hand. I put it back on the leaf when I was done with photos.

Lithophane? Munching on hickory leaf.

On the same hickory. Saw three of these, two lining up on underside leaf veins. No idea what they will grow up to be if not eaten by a warbler or attacked by a parasitic wasp or….

NYC’s first Monarch of the year on iNaturalist was spotted on May 14th on Governor’s Island. She was laying eggs on milkweed. Yesterday, during my Bugging Out walk a Green-Wood, in-between an American Lady and a Pearl Crescent, we all saw the Monarch pictured above. Not, of course a moth, although your Moth-heads may insist on calling butterflies “day-flying moths.”