Moth Gallery
A collection of moth photos taken in our backyard habitat in Hillsborough, NC (unless otherwise stated) using a combination of mercury vapor, metal halide, and UV lights.
Adjutant Wainscot
Ailanthus Webworm
Baltimore Snout
Banded or Nais Tiger
Banded Tussock
Beautiful Wood-nymph
Beloved Emarginea
Bent-line Carpet
Bicolor Pyraustra
Black-bordered Lemon
Black-Marked Inga
Brown Panapoda
Brown-Shaded Gray
Carolina Sphinx
Chalcedony Midget
Chickweed Geometer
Clemen’s Tubeworm Moth
Clymene
Observed in Elon, NC.
Coastal Plain Meganola
Common Idia
Common Tan Wave
Contracted Datana
Crowned Slug
Crowned Slug
Dainty Gray
Dark-Spotted Palthis
Deep Yellow Euchlaena
Desmia species
Exactly species unknown; requires additional images to show distinguishing markings.
Dimorphic Snout
Dimorphic Tosale
Double-Banded Grass Veneer
Elegant Grass Veneer
Epipagis
Esther
Observed in Elon, NC
Fall Webworm
Florida Fern
Garden Tortix
Genista Broom
Gerdana caritella
Grateful Midget moth
Gray-Edged Snout
Green Cutworm
Hebrew Moth
Hibiscus-leaf Caterpillar Moth
Inkblot Palpita Moth
Isabella Tiger
Julia’s Dicymolomia
Juniper Geometer
Large Lace-Border
Large Lace-Border
Large Mossy Glyph
Locust Underwing
Luna
Lunate Zale
Martyringa latipennis
Medium Dagger
Merrick’s Pyralid
Mimosa Webworm
Mottled Prominent
Oblique Heterocampa
Oblique-banded Leafroller
One-Spotted Var
Packard’s Wave
Pale Gray Poop
Paler Diacme Moth
Panama Grass Tubeworm
Pink-Striped Oakworm
Platynota semiustana
Putty-Patched
Recondite Webworm Moth
Red-Banded Leafroller
Red-lined Panopoda
Rosy Maple
Scalloped Sack-bearer female
Scalloped Sack-bearer male
Shagreened Slug
Shagreened Slug
Skiff
Smoky Tetanolita Moth
Snowy Urola
Snowy Urola moth
Southern Flannel
Southern Pine Sphinx
Southern Spagueia
Southern Spagueia
Splendid Palpita
Spun Glass Slug
Striped-Back
Suzuki’s Promalactis
Tersa Sphinx
Tripudia rectangula
Tulip-Tree Beauty
Tulip-Tree Beauty
Two-banded Petrophila Moth
Two-Toned Ancylis
Variable Oakleaf?
Variable Reddish Pyraustra
Virginia Creeper Sphinx
Walnut Sphinx
Yellow-Collared Scape
Yellow-collared Slug
Yellow-collared Slug
Yellow-fringed Dolichomia
Yellow-Headed Looper
Yellow-Spotted Webworm
Yellow-vested