The Mulberry Wing
Here's a no-brainer for MOW. It's colorful and a first record for the Jamaica Bay survey. It's an Obtuse Yellow (Stiriodes obtusa), of the Noctuid subfamily Amphipyrinae. It showed up August 30 at my new hot spot building lights at Floyd Bennet Field -- an assist that was badly needed. My black lights were rather unproductive -- a trend that seems to have manifested itself in various places in recent days, perhaps due to the full moon. 

Moth of the Week © 2004 Steve Walter