The Mulberry Wing
The last week has been unseasonably cold here in the Northeast, offering no new candidates for MOW. It’s a good time to reach back and use the one I had planned the week that PC problems prevented me from doing an update. This is a Salt Marsh Moth (Estigmene acrea), of the tiger moth group. Despite its name and the local environment, this species has rarely been encountered around Jamaica Bay . This encounter came on July 14 at Floyd Bennet Field.

Moth of the Week © 2003 Steve Walter