Jason, I meant to respond when you first reported about Enyo lugubris – Mournful Sphinx. I lucked out and had a wanderer at my lights on 9/8. Here's a photo (attached). I'd already posted it to the FB moth group. Jackie NW NC / S. Blue Ridge On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Nathan Dias <diasn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just realized I had not sent the following email that has been sitting > in my "drafts" folder for a couple of days... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > The other evening I had just finished some pond maintenance and other yard > work at Rancho Dias and was checking the various stands of nectar plants > for any neat leps. I was elated to see the first blooms opening on the > Georgia Aster (endangered species) that I planted back in early spring. > > At one of the Firespikes (Odontonema strictum), I saw a medium-sized > Sphinx Moth with a familiar flight pattern. Hey, I thought - this thing > flies like that Mournful Sphinx I had at Patriots Point last weekend. > > It was getting pretty dark, but I could tell through binoculars that it > had purplish-gray mottled coloration and a darkish patch on the outer > wings. It was a Mournful Sphinx! > > A couple of documentary photos are here (nothing to write home about): > http://www.flickr.com/photos/offshorebirder2/ > > Nathan Dias - Charleston, SC > > > -- <") ( \ / |`` Jackie
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