Moths in New Milford, Connecticut, USA
In this list, I will include all moths that I find in my yard (mostly at night). I use a combination of tube blacklights, 395 nm LED light strips, and traditional incandescent light bulbs to attract the moths. I also used floral lures (four potted petunias).
Christine Young created this list 6 years ago
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Xenotemna pallorana -
Locust Twig Borer - Ecdytolopha insiticiana -
Bent-winged Owlet - Bleptina caradrinalis -
Banded Olethreutes - Olethreutes fasciatana -
Garden Tortrix - Clepsis peritana -
Blastobasis glandulella or Pigritia sp. -
American Idia - Idia americalis -
Purplish Metarranthis - Metarranthis homuraria -
Epipaschia superatalis - Dimorphic Macalla moth -
Mottled Marble - Bactra furfurana -
Powder Moth (Male) - Eufidonia notataria -
Zanclognatha protumnusalis or Zanclognatha jacchusalis -
Slant-lined Owlet - Macrochilo absorptalis -
Yucca Moth - Tegeticula yuccasella -
Olive-shaded Bird-dropping Moth - Ponometia candefacta -
Celery Looper - Anagrapha falcifera -
Large Yellow Underwing - Noctua pronuba -
Changeable Grass-veneer - Fissicrambus mutabilis -
Brown-patched Phalonidia - Phalonidia lepidana -
Zimmermannia bosquella -
Unidentified Moth - Family Blastobasidae, Pigritia fidella complex -
Common Lytrosis - Lytrosis unitaria -
Cream-edged Dichomeris Moth -Dichomeris flavocostella -
Red-streaked Mompha - Mompha eloisella