[ncsc-moths] Re: Lithopane?

  • From: Merrill Lynch <jmerrilllynch@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 16:02:16 -0500

I think unimoda is correct.  By the way all of the pinions (Lithophane) emerge 
in the fall but wait until the first warm nights of late winter-early spring to 
mate.  Baiting is much more effective for these moths than lights. 

J. Merrill Lynch
Echo Valley Farm
Watauga County, NC
3,400 feet elevation
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On Jan 7, 2012, at 9:31 PM, Bob Perkins <perkybear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Paul,
> 
> Thank you for the lead. I have the host plant, black cherry, in the yard and, 
> according to what I found in BugGuide, the moth overwinters as an adult. I 
> looked at the specimens on the MPG, BugGuide, and BOLD sites, noting a fair 
> degree of variation in patterning.
> 
> Bob
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> On Jan 7, 2012, at 9:14 PM, Paul wrote:
> 
>> I think it might be L. unimoda. Paul
>> 
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> Bob Perkins
> Woodlawn, Virginia
> Historian and General Outdoorsman
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