Subject: Purple Plagodis taken at blacklight
Location: Frederick, MD
May 16, 2013 5:41 am
Hi Bugman,
Here’s a Purple Plagodis that showed up at my blacklight trap on May 9th. Love the site!
Signature: Ben M.

Purple Plagodis

Hi Ben,
We had not heard of a Purple Plagodis, Plagodis kuetzingi, prior to your submission and we are happy to post this new Geometer Moth to our site.  According to BugGuide it is found from:  “Nova Scotia to Virginia and Tennessee west to Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin” and adults fly from May to July.  BugGuide also notes:  “larval host is Fraxinus (ash trees).”  The species is also represented on the Moth PHotographers Group and North American Moths has an interesting dialog about range maps.

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Subject: Unkown beaty
Location: Sri Lanka, Sinharadja forest
December 25, 2012 12:40 pm
Hi bugman,
during our visit to Sri Lanka we found the one attached. Can you tell me what it is?
Thanks in advance.
Signature: Ton Elzerman

Unknown Moth

Hi Ton,
We tried without any success to identify your moth.  We suspect is it in the family Erebidae and we hope we will eventually be able to provide you with a species name.

Karl provides an Identification
December 28, 2012
Hi Daniel and Ton:
It’s a Geometrid moth (Geometridae: Ennominae) in the genus Chiasmia. There are at least six similar species of Chiasmia in Sri Lanka and I wasn’t able to come up with a definitive species name. Regards.  Karl.

Hi Daniel and Karl,
I would like to thank you for the identification so far. It is a great
help for us after our visit to that beautiful Sri Lanka.
Have happy days and a good 2013!
Best regards,
Ton Elzerman

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Subject: Love this moth
Location: Goa, India
December 17, 2012 10:30 pm
This moth was sitting for hours in our house and I could photograph it without any problems.
When I looked up on Google, I saw a similar one on your website with its ID. Lovely Dysphania Percota (at Khanapur, Karnataka), which is possibly in the same ecological belt as Goa.
Thanks for the good work!
Sucheta
Goa
Signature: Suchetapotnis

Blue Tiger

Dear Sucheta,
We are very happy you figured out how to submit your photo, which is quite lovely.  The colors on your Blue Tiger, Dysphania percota, are much more vivid than the individual from our archives.  We look forward to future submissions from you, but please limit your yourself to one species per submission form.  We will respond to as many as possible.

Dear Daniel,
Thanks so much for your email. You guys are doing a terrific job. I, luckily, come across a large number of critters who are so bewitching, that I am delighted to have found your website for further info. Yes, I am glad that I figured out the mysteries of the photo submission.
Glad the colors are vivid – hope they help others identify better.
Thanks again.
Best, Sucheta

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Subject: Ecuador Genus Erateina Moth
Location: Milpe, Eucador
December 1, 2012 5:17 pm
Can you determine the species of this day flying moth?
Signature: Jim

Erateina cometaris we believe

Hi Jim,
This is a beautiful moth.  Thanks for providing us with the genus.  We would never have suspected this diurnal moth to be in the family Geometridae.  We would have guessed Uraniidae.  We believe we have matched your individual to the photos of a mounted specimen of Erateina cometaris that we located on caterpillars.unr.edu.

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Subject: Okinawan Moth
Location: Okinawa Japan
November 29, 2012 12:01 am
I found this moth on my sliding glass door in May 2008 in Okinawa Japan. The weather is tropical in this location and is already quite warm in May. I may have submitted a top shot of this a while back, but this is an underbelly shot. I would love to know what kind of moth this is. Thanks for any info you can provide.
Signature: Richelle

Geometrid Moth: Milionia basalis

Hi Richelle,
In a matter of moments, we identified your moth from the family Geometridae, often called Measuring Worm Moths, as Milionia basalis on FlickR where the Japanese name is listed as Kiobi-eda-shaku　キオビエダシャク.  We verified its identity on the National Taiwan University Insect Museum Digital Archives Project.  Please send the dorsal or top shot so that we can add it to this posting.

Thank you so much! Awesome news! Here is the dorsal shot, I found it after I had already emailed you with the belly shot. The dorsal shot was taken in August of 2007 in Okinawa as well.
Thanks again!
Richelle

Measuring Worm Moth

Thanks for sending the dorsal view.

I also realized when I did a search for the latin name of the moth that the black, white and bright orange inchworm image I sent to be indentified on the same day, is the caterpillar for that same moth…
Thanks so much for your assistance.

We cannot locate the Inchworm identification request.  Can you please resend it.

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Subject: Windowsill visitor
Location: Wainwright Alberta
August 3, 2012 12:28 pm
This moth spent the day on my windowsill. I have never seen one with this pattern before and because it was gone this morning i suspect it is a nocturnal moth. He was on my sill from at least 4pm-11pm. I’d love to know the name of such a beautiful individual. sorry the picture is a little unclear my phone was the only thing that would focus on him.
Signature: Jessica

Horned Spanworm Moth

Hi Jessica,
Our eyes are blurry right now after browsing through countless Geometridae pages on BugGuide before identifying this Horned Spanworm Moth, Nematocampa resistaria.  Both Horned Spanworm and Filament Bearer are names for the unusual caterpillar of this species.  We have several photos in our archive of the caterpillars, but this is our first image of the lovely adult moth. 

Thank you very much! Glad to have helped

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Subject: Pretty moth, what is it?
Location: cornwall
July 26, 2012 5:37 pm
Thought this was very pretty reminded me of a Vulcan bomber, haven’t a clue what insect it is, any idea? image url http://www.flickr.com/photos/thestatici/7652125692/in/photostream/
Signature: hazel

The Magpie

Hi Hazel,
We identified your Geometrid Moth as The Magpie using the UK Moths website which states:  “A very distinctive species, this was a favourite with early collectors, who used to breed it to obtain unusual coloured and patterned forms.”

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