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Photo by HaleyCross
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Field Notes

Description:

T shaped insect

Notes:

Haven't seen many of these in my 25 years of living at the base of Powell Butte.

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Pterophoridae

Species ID Suggestions

Plume moth

Pterophoridae family

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lori.tas
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Skeeter-eater
TaraSawyerGaroutte
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Comments (5)
Joey99
Haley, I think that's a plume moth too. Joe
monkey-mind and nana-puppet
uhm, the second picture is a bird, not fitting the first spotting. Please separate them. One spotting- one species! :)
lori.tas
Tara, I think you are confusing it with a Mosquito hawk, which does eat mosquitos.
TaraSawyerGaroutte
We always called these skeeter eaters, but my husbands family calls them mosquitos - who knows?

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PublishedFebruary 22, 2011

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