flaflwrgrl said:RE: Thyris sepulchralis - Mournful Thyris Moth
This link shows it on the border of Kansas & Missouri
http://mothphotographersgroup....
Since David is in NW MO, that ought to be close to him.
I saw a little dot near me on that map, so maybe I'll be lucky enough to see one of them someday. It's quite striking.
I've been seeing mostly just cabbage whites so far too, but not in nearly the large numbers I usually do. It has been 80F+ for the past few days though and over the weekend I saw my first dragonfly and American lady butterfly. The American lady came back today and dumped a ton of eggs on my pearly everlastings and prairie sage. I'm not going to be collecting any of her eggs though to raise indoors. The plants are still very small. My last experience with American ladies was too stressful. They totally wiped out my entire host plant supply. Every time I brought in cuttings to feed them, it was full of more eggs. They are particularly dirty little caterpillars too. They will have to fend for themselves.
