Police Car Moth Get Involved! Introduction Gnophaela vermiculata Wing Span: 54 mm EALT protects ecologically significant land The Edmonton and Area Land Trust (EALT) is a Habitat: Open, which is important habitat for many moth non-profit organization dedicated to wooded areas of the species. Support EALT by: conserving the region’s natural areas through foothills and boreal forest. Volunteering! Visit www.ealt.ca/volunteer or community stewardship. We work towards an Edmonton region where natural area systems Betty Fisher email [email protected] to get started. and their wildlife are valued and preserved for Bold-feathered Donating! Visit www.ealt.ca/donate for more future generations. Grass Moth information. Herpetogramma pertextalis On our conservation lands, it is common to see Wing Span: members of the Lepidoptera order, which 22 mm includes butterflies and moths. These insects Host plant: Low share many similarities such as a life cycle that plants, violets. Colleen Raymond includes larvae, pupae, and flying adult stages. Colleen Raymond They also play a key role in their ecosystem as Purple-backed pollinators. Cabbageworm Evergestis pallidata Wing Span: 19-29 mm The easiest way to tell the difference between Host plant: Mustards these astonishing flying insects is to look at including bittercress, their antennae. If the antennae are thickened Plant native flowers in your garden to benefit cabbage, and or club-like on the end, you are looking at a horseradish. native pollinators. You can obtain native butterfly. If the antennae are feathered or flower seeds from the Edmonton Native Plant thread-like, you have found a moth. Group. Virginia Ctenucha Butterfly Antennae Moth Antennae Ctenucha virginica Passionate about identifying moths and Wing Span: butterflies? Join the Alberta Lepidopterists’ 40-50 mm Guild, visit http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/ Habitat: Open, grassy habitats in uasm/alg/ for more information. Colleen Raymond aspen parkland and Betty Fisher Sources: boreal regions. http://entomology.museums.ualberta.ca/ Betty Fisher http://bugguide.net/ Once you have identified the species as a moth, use this guide to determine if it is one of Clover Looper Caenurgina crassiuscula these species, common to the Edmonton Wing Span: 30-40 mm region and EALT natural areas. Habitat: Open grassy ISBN: 978-0-9949021-5-3 areas such as meadows, pastures, roadsides. Betty Fisher Parthenice Dorothy Monteith Eight-spotted Lesser Wainscot Tiger Forester Mythimna oxygala Fireweed Clearwing Grammia Alypia Forewing Length: Albuna pyramidalis parthenice octomaculata 13-17 mm Forewing Length: Wing Span: Wing Span: Habitat: Fields, 8-14 mm 35-55 mm 30-37 mm meadows, open Habitat: Adults are Habitat: Open Host plant: grassy areas. attracted to flowers. grassy areas Andrea Jackson Climbing Colleen Raymond throughout parkland and mixed boreal forest. shrubs. Betty Fisher Black-rimmed Friendly Celery Looper Prominent Hummingbird Probole Anagrapha falcifera Pheosia rimosa Clearwing Probole amicaria Wing Span: Wing Span: Hemaris thysbe Wing Span: 32-34 mm 43-62 mm Wing Span: 23-35 mm Habitat: Open Habitat: Deciduous 45-62 mm Habitat: Moist areas like bogs, and mixedwood Habitat: Open deciduous and meadows, and forest. areas with Colleen Raymond gardens. shrubs, young Betty Fisher mixedwood Betty Fisher forests. Andrea Jackson trees, gardens. Common Betty Fisher Colleen Raymond Gluphisia One-eyed Sphinx White Eulithis Pink-banded Sallow Gluphisia septentrionis Smerinthus cerisyi Eulithis explanata Xanthia tatago Wing Span: Wing Span: Wing Span: Wing Span: 30-34 mm 25-33 mm 62-90 mm 28-35 mm Habitat: Moist areas Habitat: Poplar Habitat: River Habitat: Bogs and where willow species forest and mixed- margins, moist shrubby areas. grow. wood. woods, and Doris May wetlands. Colleen Raymond Betty Fisher Pale Beauty Campaea perlata Maple Webworm Omnivorous Wing Span: Moth Leafroller Green Arches 28-51 mm Pococera asperatella Archips purpurana Anaplectoides prasina Habitat: Wide- Wing span: 16-25 mm Wing Span: Wing Span: 45-60 mm spread in forested 18-27 mm Habitat: Wooded Host plant: Maple. Gary Anweiler areas. Habitat: Open or areas. shrubby areas. Four-spotted Polyphemus Moth Andrea Jackson Colleen Raymond Antheraea Ghost Andrea Jackson Sthenopis purpurascens polyphemus Three-lined Wing Span: Catocaline Dart Wing Span: Leafroller 94-105 mm Cryptocala acadiensis 100-150 mm Pandemis limitata Wing Span: 25-30 mm Habitat: Mature Habitat: Forewing Length: Host plant: Arrowhead, mixedwood and Deciduous 7-12 mm dock, dogbane, poplar forest, near forest, and Habitat: Deciduous elderberry, and others. wetlands. river valleys. trees and shrubs. Andrea Jackson Steph Weizenbach Colleen Raymond .