Identify

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Carol:

I am making an assumption that you live someplace in south Florida. If so the 
moth you have seen on the wing is Melanchoria cephise. Beginning in the 
spring of 1999, this pretty little geometrid has been on the wing and at 
times has been very abundant. I have found them in my bait traps in Broward 
County. On a recent trip to Key Largo, there were hundreds of them on the 
wing. There is a specimen figured in the "A Field Guide to the Moths of 
Eastern North America" by Dr. Charles V. Covell, Jr. Plate #56, Fig. #4.

Cheers,

Leroy C. Koehn
6085 Wedgewood Village Circle
Lake Worth, FL 33463-7371