Alucitoidea
- Many-plume
Moth - (Alucitidae)
- tiny, golden, feathery moth
in Taylorsville, Salt Lake
County, UT
Bombycoidea
- Carolina
Sphinx Moth - (Manduca sexta) -
Tomato Worm moth in Saratoga Springs, Utah
Cnty. UT
- Elegant
Sheep Moth - (Hemileuca
eglanterina) - large orange and black
moth in Wasatch County, Utah 8-20-2019
- One-eyed Sphinx
Moth - (Smerinthus
cerisyi) - male & female - three
different moths at Strawberry Reservoir
- Snowberry
Sphinx
Moth - (Sphinx vashti) -
at Rock Cliff State Park in Wasatch County, UT
- White-lined
Sphinx Moth - (Hyles lineata) -
1 in Taylorsville 2008, 1 at Bear River 2006,
1 on Antelope Island UT 2017
- Hera
Buckmoth - (Hemileuca hera) - at
Promontory Pt, Box Elder County, 2017, and at
LeBarron Pt, Utah County, 2004
Cossoidea
Gelechioidea
- Casebearer
Moth - (Coleophoridae)
- in Taylorsville, Utah
- Banded
Scythris - (Scythris trivinctella) -
brown & white moth on sunflower on Ant.
Island, Davis Cnty, UT 8-12-2011
-
Grass Miner Moth - (genus Agonopterix)
- small brown and gray moth in Taylorsville,
UT
- Leaf
Litter Moth - (Oegoconia
quadripuncta) - "Four-spotted
Yellowneck"
in Taylorsville, UT
- Poison
Hemlock
Moth - (Agonopterix
alstroemeriana)
- in Taylorsville, Utah
- Twirler
Moth - (Isophrictis
magnella) - small tan and brown moth at
Promontory Pt, Box Elder Cnty, Utah 8-2-2011
- Twirler
Moth - (Prolita jubata) - on
Antelope Island, Davis County, UT
- Twirler
Moth "Lesser Bud Moth" - (Recurvaria nanella) - dark brown moth with
diagonal stripes in Taylorsville, Utah
Geometroidae
(Geometrid Moths)
- Barberry
Geometer - (Coryphista meadii)
- brown striped moth at Brighton, Utah
- Bent-line
Carpet - (Costaconvexa
centrostrigaria) - tan, lined moth in
St. George, Wash. Cnty., Utah
10-9-2018
- Common
Gray - (Anavitrinella pampinaria)
- small gray moth with lots of gray lines
throughout
- Cyclophora
dataria -
light brown moth with wing-end to
wing-end wavy lines - feeds on oak -
Taylorsville, UT
- Idaea
bonifata - beautiful
little
pale moth with thin brown stripes in
Taylorsville, UT
- Idaea
occidentaria -
light brown moth with a dark brown lateral
stripe in Taylorsville, UT
- Digrammia
colorata "Creosote Moth" - tan moth
with wavy brown lines in St. George, Utah
- Eupithecia
- tiny brownish moth with skinny wings
in St. George, Utah
- Eupithecia
cretaceata - cream, brown and
gray striped moth on its host plant, False
Hellebore at Brighton, UT
- Fall
Cankerworm
Moth - small brown speckled moth in
Taylorsville, UT
- Philtraea
utahensis - small
yellow moth with yellow stripes outlined in
black marks in
Snow Canyon
- Prorella
leucata - small gray and black spotted
moth on Antelope Island
- Sagebrush
Girdle - (Plataea
trilinearia) - at the Coral Pink Sand
Dunes, Kane County, Utah
- Sericosema
- light brown moth with with dark wing line in
the Uintas, Summit County, Utah 7-16-2018
- Southern
Emerald (Synchlora frondaria) - little
green
moth with lighter wavy lines at Tonaquint
Park, St. George, UT
- Tetracis barnesii -
orange and brown moth at Coral Pink Sand
Dunes, Kane County, UT
5-27-2011
- Xanthorhoe
defensaria
- striped moth in
Taylorsville and on Antelope Island, Utah,
2014, 2009, 2008
- Xanthorhoe
- (unknown species) - beautiful multi-colored
tan and brown moth in Taylorsville, Utah
Hepialoidea
- Ghost
moth (Gazoryctra
pulcher) - in Brighton, Utah above
Silver Lake
Lasiocampidae
Noctuoidea
- Abagrotis
(genus) - medium-sized tan moth with gray
stripes in Taylorsville, Utah, 200i9
- Agrochola
purpurea - big orange and gold owlet moth
in Taylorsville, Utah, 2008
- Alfalfa
Looper Moth (Autographa
californica) - in
Utah, Salt Lake & Davis Counties, 2019,
2013, 2008
- Bicolored
Sallow - (Sunira bicolorago) - beautiful
yellow moth with 2 black spots in Taylorsville,
Utah, 2009, -17
- Armyworm
Moth - (Mythimna unipuncta) -
gold moth with two white spots in
Taylorsville, Utah
- Catocala
faustina - large, gray patterned moth
in Taylorsville, Salt Lake County,
Utah 8-22-2019
- Catocala
neogama-
"The Bride" - gray moth with yellowish spots and
bands in Taylorsville, Utah
- Celery
Looper Moth - (Anagrapha falcifera)
- gray moth with brownish-red saddle in
Taylorsville and Antelope Island, UT
- Collared
Arches Moth - (Lacinipolia
strigicollis) - in
Taylorsville, Utah
- Common Idia
(Idia aemula) -
brown moth with two gold spots in
Taylorsville, Utah
- Cutworm
Moth - (Euxoa idahoensis) -
brown spotted moth in Taylorsville, Utah
- Cutworm
or Dart Moth - Genus
Leucania - in
the Jordanelle wetlands in Wasatch County, UT
- Darker-spotted
Straw Moth (Heliothis phloxiphagus)
- in Salt Lake City, Utah & Bear River
MBR
- Dichagyris
variabilis - owlet
moth on Antelope Island & in Taylorsville,
Utah 9-23-2009, 8-31-2008
- Dingy
Cutworm Moth - (Feltia
jaculifera) -
rogal-looking moth in Taylorsville, Salt Lake
County, Utah 6-7-2007
- Four-spotted - (Tyta
luctuosa) - dark brown moth with white
spots at Utah Lake beach, Utah Cnty, UT
8-23-2018
- Gnophaela
vermiculata - "Police Car Moth" at Powder
Mtn. & Brighton, Utah
- Great
Tiger Moth - (Arctia caja) -
large brown and white moth at Heber Valley
Camp, Wasatch County, Utah 8-13-2019
- 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) - in Taylorsville, UT and on
Antelope Island, Davis
Cnty., UT
- Lichen
Moth - (Cisthene
angelus)
- at Tonaquint Nature Park, St.
George, UT
- Lichen
Moth - (Cisthene barnesii)
- brown and gold moth in Taylorsville, UT
- Lichen
Moth
- (Lycomorpha
grotei) - orange-winged moth with
black trim near St. George, Utah & Mirror
Lake hghwy.
- Litholomia
napaea -
"False Pinion Moth" on Antelope Island,
Davis County, Utah
- Narrow-winged
Midget (Tarache
augustipennis) - brown and
white moth on Antelope Island
- Oligia
rampartensis - brown owlet moth with
orange and light brown markings in Taylorsville
- Pale
Western Cutworm Moth (Possible) - (Agrotis
orthogonia) - very pale moth in Mercur
Canyon, Tooele Cnty., UT 10-2017
- Parasemia
plantaginis -
black and orange (yellow) tiger moth at
Brighton, Utah
- Plagiomimicus
spumosum - brown and tan "frothy moth" in
Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Utah 2008
- Plagiomimicus
spumosum "Frothy Moth" -
pairs at Promontory Point and Antelope Island,
Utah 2010, 2017
- Ponometia
elegantula - "Arizona Bird Dropping
Moth" - white and gold moth with a dark
white-ringed spot in St. George, Utah
- Ponometia
hutsoni - tiny cream-solored moth with
gold diagonal lines and one large and one
small spot in St. George, UT
- Prairie
Bird-dropping
Moth - (Ponometia binocula)
- white moth with a gold stripe on Antelope
Island
- Pseudanarta
flava - small gray and brown moth with
beautiful gold underwing in west desert &
Mercur Canyon, UT, 2016-17
- Ranchman's
Tiger
Moth -
(Platyprepia virginalis) -
two photos at Garr Ranch on Antelope Island
- Schinia
aetheria - brown and white moth with large
spots at Strawberry Res., Utah
- Schinia
albafascia - cream colored moth
with brown spots and wavy lines in the
Jordanelle Dam wetlands
- Schinia
arcigera - "Arc-lined Flower Moth" - rust
brown & pinkish striped moth in
Taylorsville, Utah
- Schinia
mortua - flower
moth on curlycup gumweed on Antelope Island
- Schinia acutilinea - "Acute-lined
Flower Moth" - on rabbitbrush on Antelope Island
and at Promontory Point, UT 9-2013, 9-2011
- Schinia
tertia - two separate brown, tan and white
flower moths on Antelope Island
- Schinia
unimacula - flower moth that feeds on
rabbitbrush at Bear River MBR, UT 2006, 2015
- Sordid
Dart - (Euxoa adumbrata) - brown
cutworm moth with wing spots on Antelope Island,
2009
- Stiria
intermixta - male and female yellow
moths with brown markings and brown saddles on
Antelope Island
- "The
Sweetheart" - (Catocala
amatrix) - two separate moths from 2008
& 2011 in Taylorsville, Utah
- Tarache
areli - a small brown and cream moth that
looks like a bird dropping in St. George, UT
- Tiger Moth
- big white moth in
Taylorsville, Utah 2006
- Ufeus
hulstii - soft chocolate brown moth with
thin dark wing lines in Taylorsville, Ut
2017
- Underwing
Moth - (Catocala aholibah) -
pretty gray moth in Red Butte Garden, Salt Lake
City, UT
- Western
Yellowstriped
Armyworm Moth -
(Spodoptera praefica) -
yellow & brown moth in Taylorsville, Utah
- Yellow-collared
Scape Moth -
(Cisseps fulvicollis) - at Bear
River MBR
Pterophoroidea
- Plume
Moth - (Emmelina monodactyla) -
"Morning Glory Plume Moth" on Antelope Island
- Plume Moth
- (possible Hellinsia) - light
golden moth with long wings in St. George,
Utah
- Snapdragon
Plume
Moth - (Stenoptilodes antirrhina) -
destructive pupa and moths on snapdragon
Pyraloidea
- American
Plum
Borer Moth - (Euzophera
semifuneralis)
- brown and gray moth in Taylorsville, Utah
- Clover
Hayworm
Moth (Hypsopygia
costalis) - in
Taylorsville, Utah
- Dolichomia
olinalis - "Yellow-fringed Colichomia
Moth" - in Taylorsville, Utah
- Gold-banded
Etiella
moth - (Etiella
zinckenella)
- gray
moth
with gold squiggles in Taylorsille, UT
- Gooseberry
Fruitworm
Moth - (Zophodia grossulariella)
- grey moth with zigzag stripe in
LaVerkin, Utah
- Large
Tabby Moth (Aglossa
pinguinalis ) - in Taylorsville, UT
- Meal
Moth (Pyralis
arinalis) -
brown and greenish moth (and larva) in
Taylorsville, UT, 2007
- Myelopsis
- (genus Myelopsis) - tan and brown moth
with zigzag lines in Taylorsville, Utah
- Pyralid
Moth - possible Anadelosemia
species - brown moth with stripes at
Strawberry Reservoir, Wasatch Cnty, UT
- Stored
Grain Moth - (Aglossa caprealis) -
speckled brown moth in Taylorsville, Utah
- Webbing
Coneworm Moth (Dioryctria
disclusa)
- small orange and brown moth in Taylorsville,
Utah
Crambidae
(Snout Moths)
- 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 Taylorsville, Utah
- Celery
Leaftier - (Udea
rubigalis) - garden pest in the
grasses on Antelope Island
- Chalcoela
iphitalis - tiny
gold & brown Paper Wasp-controlling moth
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 found in
Taylorsville, UT
- Diastictis
fracturalis - in
Taylorsville, UT
- Evergestis
obliqualis - little tan moth on Antelope
Island
- False
Celery Leaftier - (Udea profundalis)
- small brown moth in Draper, SL County, Utah
8-2017
Saturnidae
- Glover's
Silkmoth - (Hyalophora columbia gloveri)
- in Saratoga Springs, UT (photo by Caden
Erickson 6-2018)
- Luna Moth
(silkmoth) - photo taken in North Carolina
Sesiidae
Sphingidae
Tineoidea
- Bagworm
Moth - (Thyridopteryx meadi)
- on Creosote Bush in Clark County, NV
- Snailcase
Bagworm - (Apterona helicoidella)
- tiny mud case for the larvae at North Arm,
Pineview Reservoir, Weber Cnty, UT
- Tubeworm
Moth - Acrolophus in
Taylorsville, UT
Tortricidea
- Aethes
seriatana
- tiny moth with
reddish stripes in Taylorsville, UT
- Banded
Sunflower
Moth - (Cochylis hospes) -
gold moth with brown band on Ant. Island
& in Taylorsville, UT
- Eucosma
galenapunctana -
small but destructive golden moth in
Taylorsville, UT
- Grapholitini
- two different species at Bear River MBR
& Strawberry Reservoir, UT
- Codling
Moth - (Cydia
pomonella) - apple moth in Utah
in Taylorsville, UT
- Pelochrista
corosana - 3 photos - found in
Taylorsville, Utah on 2 different occasions
- Pelochrista
galenapunctana - see Eucosma
galenapunctana
- Suleima
baracana - at Bear River MBR
- Tortricid
Moth
- (Cochylini bucera) - small tan
moth with 2 brown striped in Taylorsville,
Utah
- Tortricid
Moth - (Subfamily Olethreutinae)
- gray, gold and white moth on Antelope
Island, Davis Cnty., UT
Yponomeutoidea
Unidentified Moths - any help
in identification would be appreciated [
birdbrain@amazingnature.us ]
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