Congrats, Harry! Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: Harry Wilson To: ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 6:11 AM Subject: [ncsc-moths] Re: Is this Platynota exasperatana? Thanks for the confirmation, Merrill. I believe that this one finally got my “yard count” up to 600. Harry From: J. Merrill Lynch Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 6:05 AM To: ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ncsc-moths] Re: Is this Platynota exasperatana? Harry, I think you're right on the i.d.--that's a pretty distinctive tort. It does appear to fly mainly in July-Aug but there are outliers on either side so I wouldn't rule it out just on that basis. Merrill On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Harry Wilson <harrywilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I had this Tort a couple of nights ago, and as I leafed through my new field guide I thought that it might be Platynota exasperatana. But BG lists the flight period as July and August. There is a photo there that is very close to my moth - http://bugguide.net/node/view/608193. And since we had no noticeable winter and plants are blooming and leafing out several weeks ahead of schedule, maybe the moth arrived early as well. Or have I just failed to dig deeply enough into MPG and BG? Harry Wilson Zebulon, NC -- J. Merrill Lynch Echo Valley Farm Watauga County, NC Elevation: 3,400 feet