Woodgrain Moths, Gray Half-Spot, Exhausted Brocade, Disparaged and Fluid Arches, & Striped Garden Caterpiller MOth
Confused Woodgrain. These are very common moths at my lights in spring.
Another Confused Woodgrain. I find them mostly in April and May, with stragglers to early June.
Bicolored Woodgrain, photographed on April 17, 2016 at Hocking Hills (eastern Ohio). I have not yet found this moth at my home lights.
Gray Half-spot Moth. This particular individual was photographed in Michigan, but I have also seen this species at Hocking Hills in eastern Ohio.
Exhausted Brocade, photographed on July 5, 2018. This is my only sighting of the species.
Disparaged Arches, photographed June 5, 2022. I have only seen two individuals at my lights, both in June.
Fluid Arches, photographed May 13, 2018, at Hocking Hills. I have found a few of these moths at Hocking Hills in May, and I also found one at my home moth lights in June.
Striped Garden Caterpillar moth. A couple of individuals have visited my lights in late August and early September.
Another Striped Garden Caterpillar moth at my UV lights.
One more Striped Garden Caterpillar moth. The larvae of this species feed on a wide variety of plants. They can eat almost every type of plant under the sun!