Several specimens flying around vegetation at the summit of the Pyramid at dusk. This one sat obligingly for some photos. Audio of their distinct call at the end of the photos.
Yay! The buggos are back! Looks like bug season 2024 is finally on <3
x-posted to BG: https://bugguide.net/node/view/2335705
21/02/24
Adult moth has hatched. I finally know who's creating these pupae.
Records
Arranged newest at top
Adult
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/199977046
Pupa
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/199977048
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/199625639
Larva in wild
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/199500727
Previous sightings
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178613428
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/95503459
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92640241
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/186128042
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/186106389
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/186106388
*May be more, but there's thousands of observations to go through.
Hostplant: uncertain, possibly Psidium guajava, pupated on Justicia betonica
Resting on a leaf in a patch of on Cooley's Hedge-Nettle (Lamiaceae: Stachys chamissonis var. cooleyae). Cool temps and overcast skies.
♂️&♀️ 🦋🏆
Male Trithemis aurora (Crimson Dropwing). Photographed near Urulanthanni, Kerala, India on 26 March 2023.
noice! Kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) moth, so certainly the right place.
Very tiny but exceptionally beautiful. I'd love to ID it. Thanks in advance!
I have seen as many as five on one rayless sunflower blossom but I could not believe when these four all positioned this way and faced me as I took the photo.
With Valeri Ponzo and Don Fraser; a successful visit for Val's lifer adult Yucca Giant-Skippers -- and we got other lifers as well. I am submitting here 132 records, including 11 beetles, 6 dragonflies, 14 caterpillars, 8 grasshoppers, 5 moths, 21 butterflies, and several plants. The weather at the start was partly sunny and 73 degrees, with a light breeze; by the end, it was sunny and 83 degrees. We left around 1500 after having walked 6.03 miles.
Wasn't able to fly, expanded it's wings and hopped and run around to hide under the forest litters.
Larva was found on 1/8/2021 it eventually spun a cocoon between some leaves and the side of the container it was in on 14/12/2021.
The adult emerged on 1/8/2021