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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Close-banded Yellowhorn - Colocasia propinquilinea -
Ipsilon Dart - Agrotis ipsilon -
Purple-backed Cabbageworm - Evergestis pallidata -
Common Lytrosis - Lytrosis unitaria -
Beautiful Wood-Nymph - Eudryas grata -
Horned Spanworm Moth - Nematocampa resistaria -
Common Pinkband - Ogdoconta cinereola -
White-Speck Moth - Mythimna unipuncta -
Pavlovski's Monopis Moth - Monopis pavlovskii -
Elegant Grass-Veneer Moth - Microcrambus elegans -
Signate Melanolophia - Melanolophia signataria -
Banded Olethreutes - Olethreutes fasciatana -
Garden Tortrix - Clepsis peritana -
Faint-spotted Palthis Moth (Palthis asopialis) -
Bold-feathered Grass Moth - Herpetogramma pertextalis -
Bent-line Carpet Moth - Costaconvexa centrostrigaria -
European Corn Borer (Male) - Ostrinia nubilalis -
Spotted Peppergrass Moth - Eustixia pupula -
Orange-headed Epicallima Moth - Epicallima argenticinctella -
Goldenrod Gall Moth - Epiblema scudderiana -
Baltimore Snout - Hypena baltimoralis -
American Dagger Moth - Acronicta americana -
Striped Eudonia Moth - Eudonia strigalis -
Unspotted Looper - Allagrapha aerea