Moth'ers, Another excellent moth night in the High Country. Added another 10 species for the year, bringing my yearly total to 158 spp. I also identified 3 lifers which pushed my total Echo Valley Farm cumulative list over the 700 threshold and my yard list now stands at 702. This is my third season of intensive mothing at this location and I'm still averaging about 20% lifers (1 in every five new moths for the season are lifers). A great hobby--every night is full of surprises. lad to see everyone really getting into it. My lifer moths: 0003 Dyseriocrania griseocapitella (Chinquapin Leaf-miner Moth) 2143 Filatima epulatrix 2413 Swammerdamia caesiella plus an unidentified Caloptilia that I haven't seen before; it looks most like 0633 C. sassafrasella and could be that species but doesn't have the scattered large spots depicted on MPG; my moth actually is a dead ringer for the image taken by Karl Hillig on MPG under 0645.97, unidentified Caloptilia moths. J. Merrill Lynch Echo Valley Farm Watauga County, NC Elevation: 3,400 feet
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