National Moth Week Summary

I did one mothing session in my backyard during National Moth Week. I had hoped to do more, but it did not work out due to rain on many nights and other evening activities on a few nights. I already posted some highlights, but here is a full list of the species I recorded, ordered by Hodges number. (Hodges numbers are named for Ronald Hodges, who compiled a numbered checklist of all known moth species that occur in North America north of Mexico in 1983.)

Acorn Moth	Blastobasis glandulella	1162
Beautiful Cosmopterix Moth	Cosmopterix pulchrimella	1472
Sweetclover Root Borer Moth	Walshia miscecolorella	1615
Spotted Dichomeris	Dichomeris punctidiscella	2283
Ailanthus Webworm Moth	Atteva aurea	2401
Tufted Apple Budmoth	Platynota idaeusalis	3740
Sooty-winged Chalcoela	Chalcoela iphitalis	4895
Celery Leaftier	Udea rubigalis	5079
Lucerne Moth	Nomophila nearctica	5156
Double-banded Grass-veneer	Crambus agitatellus	5362
Sod Webworm	Pediasia trisecta	5413
Bluegrass Webworm	Parapediasia teterrella	5451
Common Tan Wave	Pleuroprucha insulsaria	7132
Bent-line Carpet	Costaconvexa centrostrigaria	7416
Common Eupithecia	Eupithecia miserulata	7474
American Idia	Idia americalis	8322
Early Zanclognatha	Zanclognatha cruralis	8351
Green Cloverworm	Hypena scabra	8465
Black Fungus Moth	Metalectra tantillus	8502
Celery Looper	Anagrapha falcifera	8924
Large Wainscot	Rhizedra lutosa	9447.2
Variable Narrow-wing Moth	Magusa divaricata	9637.1
Yellow-striped Armyworm Moth	Spodoptera ornithogalli	9669
The Wedgling	Galgula partita	9688
The White-Speck / Armyworm	Mythimna unipuncta	10438
Linda Wainscot	Leucania linda	10445
Pearly Underwing	Peridroma saucia	10915

That makes 27 species, plus two unidentified moths (one very worn noctuid and one probable gelechiid). Several species Several moths were new to either my life list or my yard list, like the Sooty-winged Chalcoela. That makes it a fairly typical summer mothing session for the location.