Käyttäjän victorengel päiväkirja

This will be my first journal post, so may be somewhat of an experiment. It seems that having a weekly summary of the new moths could be a good idea for journaling. I am keeping a tally of moths seen for the year. It would have been a good idea to start the journaling at the same time. However, since I did not, I'll just include new moths for the year seen over the past week. For the purpose of consistency, I'll define a week as local Sunday through Saturday. So we're already into the next week. Moths seen this week are:

• Archips argyrospila
• Archips grisea
• Archips semiferana
• Argyrotaenia quercifoliana
• Blastobasis sp.
• Clepsis peritana
• Clepsis virescana
• Cobubatha dividua
• Costaconvexa centrostrigaria
• Cyclophora nanaria
• Dichomeris ligulella
• Eupithecia sp.
• Gretchena bolliana
• Hypena scabra
• Idia americalis
• Melipotis indomita
• Nematocampa resistaria
• Nomophila nearctica
• Orthonama obstipata
• Panopoda carneicosta
• Parapediasia teterrellus
• Symmetrischema striatella
• Tripudia quadrifera
• Udea rubigalis

I suppose I should add something interesting. I've noticed that Orthonama obstipata sometimes rests with wings held out flat and sometimes with them raised . I'm curious about this behavior but have not researched it yet. I'm including an observation of each, mostly to test out that feature.

One of the most interesting moths this week is this Cacotherapia flexilinealis. It's unusual because it has three antennae. I suspect some injury to have occurred during the growth period of the antennae causing it to grow in two different directions.