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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>While doing my regular weekly moth surveying at Jamaica Bay two nights ago, an unusual moth came to one of the trees I had baited. Its bold look stood out from the dagger moths and wainscots around it. But -- I didn't recognize it. In fact, I wasn't even sure what family or subfamily it was in. When I had some time to look through pages of the Moth Photographers Group yesterday, I did manage to steer to the right taxonomic area and find a match. Only a Latin name was shown for it -- </span></span><em><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Dinumma deponens</span></em><span class=style31><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>. So with something to work with, I turned to Google. The scoop? It's an Asian species that was first found in North America in north Georgia in 2012. It's been subsequently found in Alabama, Tennessee, and the Carolinas. And now New York. Unless there is information that is not available to me, this is quite a jump and the first record in the Northeast. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>A write up of the southeastern records can be found at <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.academia.edu_5391326_Dinumma-5Fdeponens-5Fis-5Fhere-5Fto-5Fstay&d=DwMFAg&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=DxSBJXRvd7MQp-AlXAtLeydve7SiywLWLcinsn9EdPE&m=mIZoGC1aBuuVjQFj7HisR6huSePSNp0IEVWOCa6oJnk&s=cc1_wvaWHgZ9WgrEK0YsG36ixK3TJqOOpVJDhBaUB_g&e=">http://www.academia.edu/5391326/Dinumma_deponens_is_here_to_stay</a> . It includes discussion of the host plant (</span></span><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>Albizia julibrissin</span></i><i><span lang=EN> -- </span></i><span class=style31><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Silktree – also introduced), with hypothesis that the host’s range could allow the moth to turn up further north. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>A picture of mine can be seen at my web site <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__stevewalternature.com_&d=DwMFAg&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=DxSBJXRvd7MQp-AlXAtLeydve7SiywLWLcinsn9EdPE&m=mIZoGC1aBuuVjQFj7HisR6huSePSNp0IEVWOCa6oJnk&s=GRG9a794ErcdTwEi7yQXTP3vizl9Xy-x-uCD9MXMlMU&e=">http://stevewalternature.com/</a> (click the moths tab).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>In a related noted, the last two outings have produced about a half dozen of the introduced <i>Sitochroa palealis</i> (Carrot Seed Moth). From a quick web search, this species seems to have been first found in 2002 in the Midwest. I first recorded this at several local sites in 2011, but it’s in the last two years that it really seems to be taking off around here (at Jamaica Bay, anyway). Well, whatever you want to say about invasives, it keeps it interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Steve Walter<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Bayside NY</span></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>