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Painted Lichen Moth

Hypoprepia fucosa

Photo by ismellar
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

About 2cm long found sunning itself on a black bbq cover near North Bay Ontario, Trout Lake

Habitat:

Mixed forest consisting of red and white pine, red maple and balsam.

Species ID Suggestions

Painted Lichen Moth

Hypoprepia fucosa

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catgrin
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Comments (4)
Maria dB
Lovely first spotting on Noah - welcome to the Project!
AntónioGinjaGinja
Welcome to Project ismellar Nice first spotting,congrats and thanks for sharing We hope you like the site as much we do; there are many features you can explore: We invite you to go to http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you will find the purpose and “rules” of Project Noah. There is a blog http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we post articles from spotters with special insight into different organisms. Look at the global and local missions to put your spottings into: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions
catgrin
:) You're welcome! I got really lucky with the i.d. - fortunately this moth has really clear markings so I was able to see the color pattern.
ismellar
Well that explains why I couldn't Id it. It looked so much like a beetle. Thank you

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PublishedOctober 31, 2014

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