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Photo by Tiffany21
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Field Notes

Description:

Underwings brown with square shaped golden spots

Habitat:

Found resting on a key lime marigold in my vegetable garden. Rural area with lots of open fields of long grasses nearby.

Notes:

My insect identifier suggested this was a sachem or woodland skipper.

Species ID Suggestions

Sachem

Atalopedes campestris

Reference Link
Saturniidae27
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Sachem

Atalopedes campestris
wstngtm
1

Comments (1)
AntónioGinjaGinja
Hello Tiffany21 and welcome to the Project Noah community! Nice first spotting! Project Noah is a tool for people to learn about wildlife, share wildlife spotting's, build nature journals and engage in citizen science. Here you will find a friendly community of people passionate about wildlife and conservation. We are thrilled for you to join Project Noah. We hope you enjoy our website and community as much as us! Enjoy yourself, learn, share and I will see you around :)

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Moths and Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest

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PublishedJuly 28, 2020

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