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Saw-toothed Crocidophora Moth (Crocidophora serratissimalis)Observer
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Moss-eating Crambid Snout Moths (Subfamily Scopariinae)Observer
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Moss-eating Crambid Snout Moths (Subfamily Scopariinae)Observer
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Moss-eating Crambid Snout Moths (Subfamily Scopariinae)Observer
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Snowy Urola Moth (Urola nivalis)Observer
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Think this is a Snowy Urola, but it doesn't seem to have a black dot on the inner edge.
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Banded Sphinx (Eumorpha fasciatus)Observer
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Banded Sphinx (Eumorpha fasciata) at Plainsboro Preserve. This is a southern species that is known to wander north on occasion. I don't know if this individual has anything to do with the passage of Tropical Storm Hanna the day before.
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Forked Grass-Veneer (Crambus bidens)Observer
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Tentative ID.
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Cyclophora culicariaObserver
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Undescribed species. Poor photo.
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White Spring Moth (Lomographa vestaliata)Observer
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Unfortunately, this is the best shot I could get of the many White Spring Moths in the area. Once they landed, they inevitably scrambled to the underside of the leaf they landed on. Probably not identifiable from this view.
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Insects (Class Insecta)Observer
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Some sort of leafroller working on oak (Scrub Oak?).
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Holarctic Azures (Genus Celastrina)Observer
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Don't know which of the Azures this is.
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Genus PerideaObserver
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I think this is either Chocolate Prominent or Bordelon's Prominent (Peridea ferruginea vs. P. bordeloni). Not sure if the ID can be made from this photo, but Hugh McGuinness identified a similar moth from the same site as P. bordeloni:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9979586
River Birch is present at Plainsboro Preserve.
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Atlantic Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus ssp. atlantica)Observer
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Large Tolype Moth (Tolype velleda)Observer
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At rest stop near Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
