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June 25, 2023
01:26 AM UTC
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June 17, 2023
04:52 AM UTC
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June 15, 2023
02:25 PM UTC
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June 4, 2023
12:27 PM UTC
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June 1, 2023
09:28 AM UTC
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May 30, 2023
07:35 PM UTC
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May 29, 2023
04:37 PM UTC
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November 14, 2022
08:07 AM CET
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June 14, 2022
07:59 AM UTC
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December 14, 2017
02:40 AM CST
Description
You know you’ve found a large moth when…
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After a 40 year career as a wildlife biologist, you can’t believe what you’re seeing is real.
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Your ruler isn’t long enough to get a good measurement (2nd image), so you go back to get a longer ruler (3rd image) and that isn’t long enough, so you scramble around to find a carpenter’s measuring tape to fully span the wings (4th image).
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Your astonishment is like the joy of a child on Christmas morning; you start laughing and giggling uncontrollably.
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The largest moth on your sheet has a wingspan 40X the size of the smallest one.
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You stay up until 3:30 a.m. journaling about one moth.
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You start taking selfies...with a moth (last image).
To the best of my ability to measure this critter, the wingspan (with a bit of the tip of the right FW missing) is about 27.8 cm, so it would probably be about 28.5 cm (11.2 in) if it were intact. The species is said to have the largest wingspan of any Lepidopteran in the world.
The moth was initially discovered on the sheet by Mary Kay Sexton. I had overlooked it.
To read more of the story, see:
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/gcwarbler/13211-mothing-in-panama
[See also: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218581553]
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March 10, 2022
08:03 PM CET
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December 7, 2021
06:26 PM CET
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November 21, 2021
04:34 PM CET
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November 14, 2021
11:07 AM UTC
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November 12, 2021
06:53 PM UTC
Description
ich habe im September eine Raupe gefunden, siehe früherer Eintrag.
da ich nach dem Fotografieren nicht gleich Zeit hatte, sie raus zubringen hatte ich sie vorübergehend in einem Glas auf der Fensterbank geparkt. als ich sie rausbringen wollte war sie unauffindbar. bis ich sie heute als Puppe wiederfand.
im Frühjahr 2022 ist der Falter geschlüpft. ich habe ihn in die Linde vors Haus gesetzt. er war sehr ruhig zu händeln.
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October 28, 2021
09:21 AM UTC
Description
Host plant unknown, found on wall
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September 18, 2021
10:28 AM CEST
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July 22, 2021
04:59 PM UTC
Description
Mitten in einer Gruppe Kraniche
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June 22, 2021
04:13 PM CEST
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June 15, 2021
08:24 AM CEST
Description
a copula between Atolmis rubricollis and Eilema sororcula.
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April 7, 2021
11:29 PM CEST
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March 28, 2021
07:46 PM UTC
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March 28, 2021
05:24 PM CEST
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March 17, 2021
07:50 AM CET
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March 12, 2021
10:48 PM UTC
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February 21, 2021
06:55 AM UTC
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February 20, 2021
09:24 PM CST
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January 15, 2021
08:45 AM CET
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November 10, 2020
11:27 AM CET
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October 24, 2020
06:09 PM CEST
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October 21, 2020
10:09 PM CEST
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October 21, 2020
10:09 PM CEST
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October 16, 2020
01:37 PM UTC
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October 13, 2020
10:56 AM HST
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October 13, 2020
10:55 PM CEST
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June 4, 2020
10:06 AM CEST
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September 21, 2020
07:47 PM CEST
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October 4, 2020
07:22 PM CEST
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October 3, 2020
07:17 PM CEST
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October 2, 2020
09:58 PM CEST
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October 2, 2020
10:32 PM CEST
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September 30, 2020
03:48 PM CEST
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September 19, 2020
11:42 AM CEST
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April 15, 2020
02:10 PM MSK
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September 11, 2020
08:24 PM CEST
Place
Missing Location
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September 9, 2020
11:40 PM CEST
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August 28, 2020
04:44 PM UTC
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June 22, 2020
08:22 AM CEST
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June 21, 2020
10:41 PM CEST
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May 11, 2020
08:32 PM CEST
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May 11, 2020
12:23 PM CEST
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May 3, 2020
09:44 PM CEST
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April 24, 2020
07:02 PM CEST
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February 18, 2020
08:57 PM CET
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February 10, 2020
04:48 PM CET
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February 10, 2020
07:58 PM CET
Description
Diese Beobachtung gilt der Satelliteneule! :)
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February 8, 2020
07:44 PM CET
Description
NW-slope (hibernating within old wood of Fagus sylvatica)
cold-adapted montane species from a cryptic refuge of LGM
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February 8, 2020
09:07 PM CET
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February 8, 2020
09:27 AM CET
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February 5, 2020
07:11 PM -05
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March 4, 2019
05:07 PM CET
Description
Erstnachweis für Deutschland
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December 10, 2019
07:44 PM PST
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December 15, 2019
08:03 PM UTC
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November 15, 2019
11:34 AM CET
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November 14, 2019
12:42 PM CET
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October 22, 2019
11:19 AM CEST
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October 13, 2019
06:31 PM CEST
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October 10, 2019
12:39 PM PDT
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October 9, 2019
07:11 PM UTC
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October 7, 2019
11:45 PM CEST
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October 7, 2019
06:56 PM CEST
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August 13, 2019
10:27 PM CEST
Description
Under a stone on the edge of a harvested limestone cornfield. Total length about 3 cm (~1,2 inch).
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October 6, 2019
04:12 PM CEST
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October 6, 2019
07:38 PM CEST
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October 6, 2019
08:16 AM CEST
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October 5, 2019
04:02 PM UTC
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September 19, 2019
01:16 AM CEST
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September 13, 2019
10:28 PM CEST
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September 2, 2019
08:22 AM HST
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July 18, 2019
09:12 AM -03
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July 19, 2019
12:09 PM CEST
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July 5, 2019
09:56 AM CEST
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June 10, 2019
06:20 PM CEST