The Mulberry Wing
After finding a colony of Little Underwings at Floyd Bennet Field last summer and finding out that honey locust was the host, I did some research to find out what other species use this host. It turns out that the short list does include another underwing. I kept a lookout the rest of the summer for it but I all I got were The Little Wife, The Sweetheart, and Darling Underwing (the usual suspects). Well, appearing this year on August 9 (first at bait at the honey locust grove), here is The Betrothed (Catocala innubens).

Moth of the Week © 2005 Steve Walter