of Utah


My Other Sites:    Insects & Bugs       Utah Wings      Spiders       Butterflies        Dragonflies & Damselflies       Unusual Nature Photos


New  3-6-2010

Tortricid Moth - Cochylini

Armyworm Caterpillar - Spodoptera

        Bombycoidea

• White-lined Sphinx Moth - (Hyles lineata) - 2  in Taylorsville, Utah & Bear River MBR
• Hera Buckmoth - (Hemileuca hera) - at LeBarron Point on Utah Lake

        Cossoidea

• Carpenterworm Moth - (Prionoxystus robiniae) - at the porch light in Taylorsville, Utah
  

        Gelechioidea

• Casebearer Moth - (Coleophoridae) - in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Leaf Litter Moth - (Oegoconia quadripuncta) - "Four-spotted Yellowneck" in Taylorsville, UT
• Poison Hemlock Moth - (Agonopterix alstroemeriana) - in Taylorsville, Utah
• Twirler Moth - (Prolita jubata) - on Antelope Island, Davis County, UT
  

        Geometroidea (Geometrid Moths)

• Idaea bonifata - beautiful little pale moth with thin brown stripes
• Idaea occidentaria - light brown moth with a dark brown lateral stripe
  
• Digrammia irroratas - two different-looking species in Taylorsville, UT
• Eupithecia - tiny brownish moth with skinny wings in St. George, Utah
• Fall Cankerworm Moth - small brown speckled moth in Taylorsville, UT
  
• Prorella leucata - small gray and black spotted moth on Antelope Island
  
• Xanthorhoe defensaria - striped moth in Taylorsville, Utah
  

        Hepialoidea

• Ghost moth (Gazoryctra pulcher) - in Brighton, Utah above Silver Lake
  

       Noctuoidea   

• Agrochola purpurea - owlet moth in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Alfalfa Looper Moth (Autographa californica) - in Taylorsville, Utah
• Army Cutworm Moth (Euxoa auxiliaris) - in Taylorsville, Utah
• Bicolored Sallow - (Sunira bicolorago) - yellow moth with 2 black spots in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Collared Arches Moth - (Lacinipolia strigicollis) - in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Common Idia  (Idia aemula) - brown moth with two gold spots in Salt Lake City, Utah
  
• Darker-spotted Straw Moth (Heliothis phloxiphagus) - in Salt Lake City, Utah & Bear River MBR
• Dichagyris variabilis - owlet moth in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Dingy Cutworm Moth (Feltia jaculifera) - in Taylorsville, Utah
• Gnophaela vermiculata - "Police Car Moth" at Powder Mtn. & Brighton, Utah
• Hadenini Moth - (Hecatera dysodea) - European owlet moth in Salt Lake City, Utah
• Ipsilon Dart Moth -  (Agrotis ipsilon) - cutworm moth on Antelope Island
  
• Isabella Tiger Moth  (Pyrrharctica isabella) - in Taylorsville, Utah
• Large Yellow Underwing - (Noctua pronuba) - on Antelope Island
  
• Lichen Moth - (Cisthene angelus) - at Tonaquint Nature Park, St. George, UT
  
• Lichen Moth - (Lycomorpha golei) - near St. George, Utah
• Litholomia napaea - "False Pinion Moth" on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah
  
• Narrow-winged Midget (Therasea augustipennis) - on Antelope Island
• Oligia rampartensis - brown owlet moth with orange and light brown markings in Taylorsville
• Parasemia plantaginis - black and orange (yellow) tiger moth at Brighton, Utah
  
• Plagiomimicus - probable spumosum and manti species in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Ranchman's Tiger Moth (Platyprepia virginalis) - at Garr Ranch on Antelope Island
• Schinia mortua - flower moth on curlycup gumweed on Antelope Island
• Schinia tertia - brown and white flower moth on Antelope Island
  
• Schinia unimacula - flower moth that feeds on Rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa)
• Sordid Dart - (Euxoa adumbrata) - cutworm moth on Antelope Island
  
• "The Sweetheart " - (Catocala amatrix) - in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Tiger Moth  - in Taylorsville, Utah
• Western Yellowstriped Armyworm Moth  - (Spodoptera praefica) - yellow & brown moth in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Yellow-collared Scape Moth (Cisseps fulvicollis) - at Bear River MBR

• Plume Moth - (Emmelina monodactyla) - "Morning Glory Plume Moth" on Antelope Island
  

• American Plum Borer Moth - brown and gray moth with black horizontal stripe in Taylorsville, Utah
• Celery Leaftier - (Udea rubigalis) - garden pest in the grasses on Antelope Island
  
• Clover Hayworm Moth  (Hypsopygia costalis) - in Taylorsville, Utah
• Dolichomia olinalis - "Yellow-fringed Colichomia Moth" - in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Large Tabby Moth  (Aglossa pinguinalis ) - in Taylorsville, UT
• Meal Moth (Pyralis arinalis) - in Taylorsville, UT
• Webbing Coneworm Moth (Dioryctria disclusa) - in Taylorsville, Utah
  

• Agriphila plumbifimbriella - striped (spotted) gray or brown moth on Antelope Island
  
• Alfalfa Webworm Moth - (Loxostege cerealis) - in Taylorsville, Utah
• Beet Webworm Moth - (Loxostege sticticalis) - in Wasatch County, Utah
• Bluegrass Webworm Moth - (Parapediasia teterrella) - brown and gold moth in Utah
  
• Chalcoela iphitalis - in Taylorsville, UT
• Cornifrons actualis - little silver moth with stripes in Taylorsville, Utah
• Common Grass Veneer - Crambus praefectellus - gold and white moth in Taylorsville, UT
  
• Cranberry Girdler - silver and gold moth
  
• Diastictis fracturalis - in Taylorsville, UT
• Evergestis obliqualis - little tan moths on Antelope Island
  
• Lesser Vagabond Sod Webworm Moth - in Taylorsville, UT
• Pyrausta insequalis - at North Arm of Pineview Reservoir
• Rufous-banded Crambid Moth - (Mimoschinia rufofascialis) - in Taylorsville, Utah
  

• Luna Moth (silkmoth) - photo taken in North Carolina            

• Tubeworm Moth - Acrolophus in Taylorsville, UT
  

Home - Amazing Nature

I want to thank Bugguide.net for help in moth identification, along with The Moth Photographers Group.

Favorite Links

Utah Wings	Red Cliffs Audubon	Bugguide.net
Bugscope	National Audubon	Milne Jewelry
Canadian Peregrine Fndtn.	Moth Photographewrs Group	UDWR
Cornell Lab	Powdermill Nature Pres.	New York Bird & Nature Photography
U of Minnesota insects & spiders	Butterflies of N.A.