Migrant Moths...Mexico...ID?

[Hank Brodkin]

Michael Gochfeld wrote:
> 
> This sounds like a Urania migration.  Neil Smith published on these mass movements
> which can occur synchronously over large areas of the Neotropics.  I witnessed a
> movement of these in Costa Rica.  I consider them Swallow-tail like, brilliant green
> and black, rather than luna-like.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Name: Michael Gochfeld
> E-mail: Michael Gochfeld <gochfeld at eohsi.rutgers.edu>
> UMDNJ/RWJMS and EOHSI, Piscataway, NJ
> Date: 10/27/98
> Time: 19:13:30

I seem to recall that the venerable Alexander Skutch discussed this
phenomenon in a chapter in one of his many books.  These mass migrations
are apparently quite a sight.
Cheers!
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