#arched hooktip

[onenicebugperday]

Arched hooktip, Drepana arcuata, Drepanidae

Photographed in Maryland by Judy Gallagher

[toadalled]

An extra SOFT moth

[onenicebugperday]

@bonefries submitted: sorry for the weird collage-like pic! I wasnt sure how to send multiples ^^;; But! Here is a collection of friends from last summer. I live in upstate NY and we have a pretty fruitful bunch of critters! (Anyone being handled was done so with care and only for relocation purposes.)

I don’t want to play favorites because they are all beautiful and perfect BUT WOW THAT MOTH ON THE UPPER RIGHT. So fashionable. I want to be that moth. It’s an arched hooktip for anyone curious. Also I feel like it’s easier to send multiples through the app? I forget, despite asking many times.

[onenicebugperday]

Round two

I’ll assume these were also found in Washington. Lordy all the pretty geometers! You are absolutely surrounded by friends up there. I’ll do some more casual IDing~

1. Geometer, green pug?

2. Spotted tussock

3. Geometer, pale-marked angle?

4. Geometer, not distinctive enough to ID offhand

5. Some kinda Noctuidae dude

6. Geometer, porcelain gray?

7. Common emerald geometer

8. Another dude in Noctuidae probably

9. Arched hooktip

10. Don’t recognize this pal but I do love them

If anyone wants to try to narrow down the ones I didn’t look up, feel free!

[toddjdreyer]

Drepana arcuata / Arched Hooktip (6251) makes for the 902nd moth species documented in my backyard.

[astronomy-to-zoology]

Arched Hooktip (Drepana arcuata)

Also known as the Masked Birch Caterpillar in its larval stage, the arched hooktip is a species of Hooktip moth (Drepanidae) that is native to North America, where it occurs from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, south to South Carolina to the east and California to the west. Adults are often on wing from mid-may through late-July. Juveniles are known to associate with and feed on Betula, Papyrifera, and Alnus spp. 

Classification

Animalia-Arthropoda-Insecta-Lepidoptera-Drepanidae-Drepana-D. arcuata

Image: Micheal Hodge

[northwestnaturalist]

Drepana arcuata “Arched Hooktip Moth” Drepanidae

Clinton, MT July 25, 2015 Robert Niese

Here’s another moth we spotted during our Mothlighting event for National Moth Week with the Missoula Butterfly House. These moths are positively unmistakable! In our area there are no other moths that pull-off the “I’m a dead leaf” look quite as well as the Hooktips. The PNW is home to two species of Hooktip moths -- D. arcuata and D. bilineata (which, as its name suggests, has two lines instead of one). As larva, Hooktip moths feed on the leaves of Alder and Birch trees where they hide inside folded leaves.