Identify Please!!!

Ryan rvandermoor at home.com
Sun Jul 2 02:36:39 EDT 2000


    Collected from the Merritt area of British Columbia, Canada. We have
collected in this area for many years, and on June tenth of this year we
found a species of moth that we are unfamiliar with, and are as of yet
undable to identify. This is very odd and we are quite excited to have found
something new to us.
These moths were spooked from the grass durring the day while collecting.
The most intriguing thing about them is the extreme variation between
individual specimens.Their wing span is approx. 1-3/8 inches. We collected a
nice series (approx. 25 specimens)
The look like they may be from the Arctiidae family. Any ideas would be
greatly appreciated.
Sorry about the hurting picture. a better one will follow...

happy collecting


rvandermoor at home.com




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