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A mystery moth which has remained unidentified for 10 years. Mystery solved.

http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=909

https://bugguide.net/node/view/719392

At porch lights or sugar bait after dark on night with full moon and temps 60-53F.

At blacklight after dark at edge of sedge marsh and mesic prairie on warm night with light drizzle.

Individual approx. 3" long

Leadplant stem gall- walshia amorphella?

Collected in the field and emerged back at the office, leadplant was the plant collected on.

Among web on Amorpha canescens in small, shrinking remnant bluff prairie. ID uncertain, based on larval characteristics and host plant interaction.

Aldo Leopold Center, Shack, and vicinity.

Tentative ID

Was hiding in Opuntia flower

Was hiding in Penstemon grandiflorus flower

Seen on Amorpha canescens

Found on Choke Cherry, wetland woodland edge.

Came to porch lights left on from 21:00-23:30. ID uncertain.

Smut fungus on big bluestem seed heads/culms

Culm smut of Big Bluestem

Yet another new species! Original host gall observation here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/167275394

Observed beetle on fresh scat in Mott’s Ravine