Fw: Great Leopard Moth (Hypercompe scribonia)

[Lemmon]

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From: "Tom Malinski" <tmalinski at snet.net>
To: <lemmon at snet.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 8:24 PM
Subject: Great Leopard Moth (Hypercompe scribonia)


> To whom it may concern,
> My name is Tom Malinski from Terryville, CT. I am a very serious amateur
> photographer. Recently I was searching the Web trying to identify a moth
my
> wife discovered in our back yard. It turned out to be a (Hypercompe
> scribonia) a Great Leopard Moth. He was resting on some Ulmus Camperdownii
> foliage near our water and perennial garden in the back yard. It was early
> evening on 6/25/01, there was plenty of light available so I got my tripod
> and shot a whole roll of him as he posed so graciously. He is a stunningly
> beautiful moth. I used my Canon EOS3 and a 100mm macro lens and was able
to
> fill the frame with great detail. I used Fuji Velvia slide film as I do
for
> most of my nature images, They came out spectacular.
> I attempted to contact the State Butterfly Coordinator at Uconn through a
> link I found on the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center web site
> (bioadm4 at uconnvm.uconn.edu) but did not get any response. According to
their
> map of the U.S. of known locations for this moth, it looks like there is
no
> record of sightings in Connecticut! I have attached a low res jpeg file of
> one of my slides. I have several slides and high res scans, I could send
you
> one if you are interested. Please let me know if this information is
useful
> to you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Tom Malinski
> 159 North Main St
> Terryville CT. 06786
> Home (860) 583-4936
> tmalinski at snet.net
>
>
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