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A bit of a ragged individual at porchlight; first of the season for this species.
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"Photographed at night as it was nectaring on crucita (""Eupatorium"" odoratum). Two individuals were present. Very similar to Palpita quadristigmalis, but in that smaller species, the wings are even more translucent and there are four small dark dots immediately along the lower edge of the brown forewing leading stripe on each wing. FW length ~15mm. Update (11/5/14): Adding a second image of the same moth taken about 30 sec. later on the same flower. ***Note the small dark discal dots on the FW, not visible in the first image. I don't know what this does for the identification!"
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"Photographed at night as it was nectaring on crucita (""Eupatorium"" odoratum). Two individuals were present. Very similar to Palpita quadristigmalis, but in that smaller species, the wings are even more translucent and there are four small dark dots immediately along the lower edge of the brown forewing leading stripe on each wing. FW length ~15mm. Update (11/5/14): Adding a second image of the same moth taken about 30 sec. later on the same flower. ***Note the small dark discal dots on the FW, not visible in the first image. I don't know what this does for the identification!"
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At porchlight. A typical individual with (a) no dark dots on FW (cf. Palpita spp.), and (b) sharply bicolored orange and white front tibia. Here's the MPG page for the species.
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"Experimented with the new black light and the ""Larry's light house"" from BioQuip: https://www.bioquip.com/search/DispProduct.asp?pid=2878 It's quite nice, although my pictures still aren't too hot... :( I have my camera on the finest settings, but they still tend to come out blurry. Ah well. I'll keep experimenting... Also, I think this is the right species: http://bugguide.net/node/view/1001387"
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Hodges#5216 http://bugguide.net/node/view/1126389
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Hodges#5216 http://bugguide.net/node/view/1126389
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Yet another first for the Spring at the blacklight (actually at the porchlight). FW = 13.5mm.
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Yet another first for the Spring at the blacklight (actually at the porchlight). FW = 13.5mm.
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They were all over my lantanas and daturas, counted at least 25.
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Palpita kimballi
