Migrant Moths...Mexico...ID?

Semjase semjase at aol.com
Tue Oct 27 10:53:09 EST 1998


>A friend was in Veracruz, Mexico from 7-14 October.  She attempted to get
>me some dragonfly migration data, but had many distractions with all of the
>migrating raptors and the moth migration she describes below.
>
>"The entire time there were 1,000's of large dark moths (that looked like a
>black Luna with irridescent torquois markings) migrating too all day long".
>
>"On 10/8 I got distracted with the large black moths that were migrating
>and 11:35 a.m. counted 110/minute in 1 field of view as I looked out
>over the Gulf of Mexico at La Mancha Biological Station".
>
>Could anyone out there speculate what species she observed from this
>description?

This is at 11:00 in the morning?  Could it be some swallowtail butterfly?  I
can't think of anything the size of a luna moth with the same configuration and
the unusual markings that would be out in numbers at that time of day.  

S.


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