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Field Notes

Description:

I spotted these female hawk moths around 3PM and the males starting at 5PM.

Habitat:

The female hawk moths were pollination Pink Lady's Thumb (Persicaria vulgaris) around the edge of a dried up lake at Jackson Bottom Wetland reserve in Cornelius, Oregon. I found the males out patrolling the field of flowers in the lake bed a little bit later in the day and I'm working on getting a better picture of them.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
bayucca
Noctuidae, not Sphingidae. http://bugguide.net/node/view/173/bgpage?from=0 Reminds me of the Silver Y Moth of Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Y Maybe it is from the same subfamily Plusiinae, but I did not find a reasonable match. http://bugguide.net/node/view/12377/bgpage

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PublishedOctober 5, 2014

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