#hypena

[bugtoucher420]

Just bugtoucher things: hauling out the stepladder at 3 a.m to take a picture of the world's most average looking moth

[starry-plum]

Goth werewolves are in this season

[bugtoucher420]

Hypenine snout moths have no business being as beautiful as they are. Some of my favorite porch light visitors, and they’re not even the big showy moths like saturniids or sphinxes! Give some love to these little perpendicular creatures:

(All photos are mine)

[bugtoucher420]

it's been Real Hypena Hours in the backyard over the past few days, which is never a complaint. Absolute cutie patooties.

IDs:

1) Flowing-line hypena - Hypena manalis

2) Grey-edged hypena - Hypena madefactalis

3) Baltimore hypena (my FAV) - Hypena baltimoralis

4) Painted lichen moth - Hypoprepia fucosa

5) Bold-feathered grass moth - Herpetogramma pertextalis

6) Grape leaffolder - Desmia funeralis

7) Red-banded leafroller - Argyrotaenia velutinana

[arcticarthropod]

Cute snoot! Hypena friend

[arcticarthropod]

Spooky boy.

[arcticarthropod]

Hypena moth friend. She was much darker and elegant in real life

[lepidopterascientifica]

Hypena proboscidalis

02.07.2014