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[Melissa :)]

I have no idea what this is, or whether its a butterfly or a moth. I know how to tell the difference (based on antennae) but I cannot see them clearly in this picture. Any ideas?

And on a completely different note, I have edited out a slug somewhere on the tree. Can anybody see where I edited it? I'm hoping that its not that visible...


Thanks!!

[psweet]

This is one of the Geometridae moths, possibly one of the grays or maybe a Small Engrailed, but I'm afraid I don't know them very well.

[Benjamin DeHaven]

As to the slug... I THINK if pushed I would guess it was on the lower left hand side from the bottom of the frame up to even with the bottom of the moth about a little less than 1/4 way from the left border. If its not that slightly dark long skinny area with a crack in the middle of it then I have absolutely no idea where it would be. And, had you not told me to look I would have never noticed anything at all. No weird artifacts or inconsistencies that I can see.

Edit: I just looked again and now I think it curves up out of the right hand corner and goes up a bit under 1/2 up the image. But seriously, even IF I got it right with two guesses, its a good patch (and if I was wrong you know its a great patch!)

Benjamin

[Melissa :)]

As to the slug... I THINK if pushed I would guess it was on the lower left hand side from the bottom of the frame up to even with the bottom of the moth about a little less than 1/4 way from the left border. If its not that slightly dark long skinny area with a crack in the middle of it then I have absolutely no idea where it would be. And, had you not told me to look I would have never noticed anything at all. No weird artifacts or inconsistencies that I can see.

Edit: I just looked again and now I think it curves up out of the right hand corner and goes up a bit under 1/2 up the image. But seriously, even IF I got it right with two guesses, its a good patch (and if I was wrong you know its a great patch!)

Benjamin

Haha, you got it right with the second guess.

Anybody else have any idea what this moth could be?

[RyanWarnerPa]

I'm leaning towards Tulip Tree Beauty. Notice how there are deep scalloped outer edge of the hind wings, this is typical of the Genus Epimecis, the Species is most likely Hortaria. I don't know if I'd go as far as calling it a Window Moth, but it's very similar.

And I couldn't find any signs of a slug removal.

[Melissa :)]

Yup, my moth definitely looks like a Tulip Tree Beauty! Thanks for the website link-- helped to confirm the ID!

[RyanWarnerPa]

Not a problem. I love that Bugguide.net site! Even though I don't have a fear of spiders looking through all the spiders does give me a creepy skin crawling feeling.