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Saturday, June 6, 2015

Got the horn

The first Nemophora degeerella of the year appeared in the garden today, slightly later than last year. I love these longhorn moths, they have bags of character. The males' antennae are three to four times the length of the fore wing. In June, I see groups of males displaying, I guess in a lek.

The books say that the larval food plant is unknown. I kind of like the fact that there's a moth at the bottom of the garden which no one knows what it eats!


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