Historical Butterfly & Moth Observations on Mount Desert Island | SPRING | Schoodic Institute

DATE COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME LOCATION 5/18/36 Clemen's agonopterix moth Agonopterix clemensella Breakneck Road 4/28/38 glass miner moth Agonopterix sabulella [?] Southwest Harbor 6/05/37 bridge roller moth Ancylis uncella Seawall Bog 5/13/37 variable carpet moth Anticlea vasiliata Bar Harbor 4/12/35 the infant moth Archiearis infans Bar Harbor 6/10/38 twirler moth Carpatolechia belangerella Big Heath 5/27/35 Fish's dart moth Cerastis fishii MDI 4/17/35 Diana's choreutis moth Choreutis diana Bar Harbor 4/25/46 apple leaf skeletonizer moth Choreutis pariana Bar Harbor 5/11/34 mottled gray carpet moth Cladara limitaria Bar Harbor 6/08/37 birch conch moth Cochylis nana Seawall Bog 6/15/32 eastern grass-veneer moth Crambus laqueatellus Norway Dr. 4/26/35 Norman's quaker moth Crocigrapha normani MDI 6/02/35 dusky hooded owlet moth Cucullia intermedia Eagle Lake 5/19/37 twirler moth Dichomeris bipunctellus MDI 5/19/37 small engrailed moth Ectropis crepuscularia Jordan Pond 4/26/35 woodling moth Egira dolosa Bar Harbor 4/28/34 tobacco moth Ephestia elutella MDI 6/27/37 goldcap moss-eater moth Epimartyria auricrinella Long Pond 4/25/35 purplish birch-miner moth Eriocrania semipurpurella MDI 5/19/46 early hairstreak butterfly Erora laeta Bar Harbor 6/13/36 dreamy duskywing butterfly Erynnis icelus Half Moon Pond 4/26/35 larch pug moth Eupithecia annulata Bar Harbor 4/26/35 lost sallow moth Eupsilia devia Bar Harbor 4/06/33 sidus sallow moth Eupsilia sidus Bar Harbor 5/28/35 harvester butterfly Feniseca tarquinius Bar Harbor 6/04/28 berry plume moth Geina tenuidactyla Lower Breakneck Road 6/02/35 false yellow-dusted cream moth Gueneria similaria Eagle Lake 6/21/38 scavenger moth Holcocera chalcofrontella Bar Harbor 4/26/35 goat sallow moth Homoglaea hircina Bar Harbor 6/15/32 larch silk moth Hyalophora columbia Bar Harbor 5/18/33 greenish blue butterfly Icaricia saepiolus MDI Mount Desert 4/26/35 false pinion moth Litholomia napaea Narrows 4/27/35 Bethune's pinion moth Lithophane bethunei Bar Harbor 4/30/36 hoary pinion moth Lithophane fagina Bar Harbor 4/23/38 broad ashen pinion moth Lithophane laticinerea Bar Harbor 4/30/36 stout spanworm moth Lycia ursaria MDI 6/06/35 red-headed inchworm moth Macaria bisignata Witch Hole Pond 6/24/34 granite moth Macaria granitata Bar Harbor 6/18/38 pygmy moth Nepticula sp. Bar Harbor 5/01/36 yellow-veined geometer moth Orthofidonia flavivenata MDI DATE COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME LOCATION 4/27/35 speckled green fruitworm moth Orthosia hibisci Bar Harbor 6/10/37 dark-spotted palthis moth Palthis angulalis Bar Harbor 4/30/05 spicebush swallowtail butterfly Papilio troilus MDI 6/06/35 northern petrophora moth Petrophora subaequaria Witch Hole Pond 4/29/36 half-wing moth Phigalia titea MDI 4/xx/44 oak leaf blotch miner moth Phyllonorycter basistrigella Bar Harbor 4/16/35 huckleberry leafminer moth Phyllonorycter diversella Bar Harbor 4/xx/45 black birch miner moth Phyllonorycter martiella Bar Harbor 6/07/37 American barred umber moth Plagodis pulveraria Long Pond 6/14/35 lemon plagodis moth Plagodis serinaria Jordan Pond 6/26/32 tawny-edged skipper butterfly Polites themistocles Echo Lake 5/25/36 long-horned flat-back moth Prolita sexpunctella Seawall 5/27/49 speckled black pyla moth Pyla fusca Bar Harbor 6/05/37 spear-marked black moth Rheumaptera hastata Southwest Harbor Bog 4/29/36 the herald moth Scoliopteryx libatrix MDIBL 4/27/35 dull flatbody moth Semioscopis inornata Southwest Harbor 5/11/37 pale semioscopis moth Semioscopis megamicrella Southwest Harbor 6/28/36 maroonwing moth Sideridis maryx Otter Cliffs 4/30/75 one-eyed sphinx moth Smerinthus cerisyi Bar Harbor 5/30/75 one-eyed sphinx moth Smerinthus cerisyi Bar Harbor 6/18/36 northern cloudywing butterfly Thorybes pylades Half Moon Pond 6/27/34 white-striped black moth Trichodezia albovittata Long Pond 4/26/35 toothed brown carpet moth Xanthorhoe lacustrata MDI 4/30/36 gray swordgrass moth Xylena cineritia Bar Harbor 4/30/36 dot-and-dash swordgrass moth Xylena curvimacula Bar Harbor 4/30/36 American swordgrass moth Xylena nupera Bar Harbor 4/25/33 larch needleworm moth Zeiraphera improbana MDI

SPECIES SEEN HISTORICALLY IN SUMMER THAT MAY BE PRESENT IN EARLY SPRING

1884 double-lined fercula moth Furcula occidentalis MDI 1885 common wood nymph butterfly Cercyonis pegala MDI 1888 oak hairstreak butterfly Satyrium favonius Ellsworth Road 1889 viceroy butterfly Limenitis archippus MDI 1889 white admiral butterfly Limentis arthemis MDI 1883 green comma butterfly Polygonia faunus MDI 1889 gray comma butterfly Polygonia progne MDI 1889 painted lady butterfly Vanessa cardui MDI 1889 meadow fritillary butterfly Boloria bellona MDI 1889 cabbage white butterfly Pieris rapae Norway Road