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The contrast of the distinctly rosy-brown, glossy wings with their subtle patterns and the dull-yellow fringe is beautiful.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The larvae feed on oak trees, and since we have oak trees of several species, I’m fairly confident this moth is reproducing here.<\/p>\n
So May 23 was a special 3-new-species day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The other two species first noticed that day are in other posts–the spotted-winged fly on May 23 and the beetle on June 9.<\/p>\n
The weather continues hot and dry; the fields are browning off again.\u00a0\u00a0 I haven’t had much time to explore–there was an interesting beetle on the back kitchen door this morning, but the AC repairman and the farrier were both due, so I had plenty to do before I could look for it–and it wasn’t there, of course.\u00a0 (Both horses were trimmed before lunch,\u00a0 I gave up and cut out an impossible tangle in the palomino’s long and very thick tail, and am about to continue with the end-of-week laundry: first load was on the line before the repairman showed up.\u00a0\u00a0 And we have a huge bowl of tomatoes…we’re in the mid-end-of-June tomato glut (things die here in July and August, esp. in drought years like this.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I mentioned back a few posts that May 23, the day of the weird beetle in the bathroom, had also produced a weird moth in the kitchen…and I forgot, until I was at BugGuide looking at some of my images to see if something “new” was really “old”, that May 23, also produced the pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,21,4],"tags":[71,13,43,38,41,70],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-photography","category-wildlife","tag-activities","tag-beauty","tag-identification","tag-insect","tag-new-species","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}