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Photo by Ingrid3
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Field Notes

Description:

<1cm, amazing proboscis hairs about the snout!, copper and grey makrs on cream colored wings, long posterior directed antennae

Habitat:

perched on a vertical grass blade in the shade of a predominantly grassy part of a meadow

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
ForestDragon
I can't see the wings too well in your photos to say for sure, but it reminds me quite a lot of a Vagabond Crambus, Agriphila vulgivagella: http://bugguide.net/node/view/44969

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Moths of the World
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Wildlife of Northeastern USA
Mission
National Geographic's Great Nature Project
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PublishedNovember 20, 2013

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