Okay, I'm going to post today's pictures in a minute, but first I have to backtrack. Remember I got all annoyed with BAMONA last month because they couldn't ID my looper moth caterpillar? Well, I was doing a little searching based on the moths they've identified for me and I think I figured it out myself.
Here are the pictures to remind you.
I thought those black marks were pretty distinctive, and I was right (per usual).
I found this on Tulane's website:
http://www.tulane.edu/~ggentry...
Clearly, it's a Small Mocis moth. What's weird is that BAMONA identified the adult form for me a while back. There are hundreds of them in my neighbor's property. Every time I take a step, it seems like a couple go flying and hide elsewhere in the grass. Here's the ID of the adult I submitted.
http://www.butterfliesandmoths...
How can they know the adult and not the caterpillar?
