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Moths of Montana, USA

A guide to Moths of Montana. This guide doesn't include moths from the Noctuidae family, those are covered in another guide. The season tags are in reference to when adults are usually flying. At Northern Rockies Research & Educational Services, we begun a long-term monitoring project for ...more ↓

Water Veneer ¹
Acentria ephemerella

Confusing Petrophila Moth ²
Petrophila confusalis

Lucerne Moth ³
Nomophila nearctica

Dusky Saucrobotys Moth ⁴
Saucrobotys fumoferalis

Alfalfa Webworm Moth ⁵
Loxostege cereralis

Beet Webworm Moth ⁶
Loxostege sticticalis

Pyrausta antisocialis ⁷

Pyrausta fodinalis ⁸

Pyrausta grotei ⁴

Pyrausta nicalis ⁵

One-banded Pyrausta ⁹
Pyrausta unifascialis

Agriphila attenuatus ¹⁰

Vagabond Sod Webworm Moth ²
Agriphila vulgivagellus

Neodactria murellus ¹¹

California Grass-veneer Moth ¹²
Euchromius californicalis

Two-banded Catoptria Moth ¹³
Catoptria latiradiellus

Catoptria oregonica ¹⁴

Woolly Grass-veneer Moth ¹⁵
Thaumatopsis pexellus

Western Lawn Moth ¹⁰
Tehama bonifatella

Leach's Grass-veneer ¹⁶
Crambus leachellus

Rufous-banded Crambid Moth ¹⁷
Mimoschinia rufofascialis

Double-striped Scoparia Moth ¹⁰
Scoparia biplagialis

Eudonia echo ⁸

Eudonia rectilinea ¹⁰

Eudonia spenceri ¹⁸

Stegea salutalis ¹⁹

Evergestis subterminalis ²⁰

Evergestis funalis columbialis ¹¹

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Moths of Montana, USA

Water Veneer 1 Acentria ephemerella

Confusing Petrophila Moth 2 Petrophila confusalis

Lucerne Moth 3 Nomophila nearctica

Dusky Saucrobotys Moth 4 Saucrobotys fumoferalis

Alfalfa Webworm Moth 5 Loxostege cereralis

Beet Webworm Moth 6 Loxostege sticticalis

One-banded Pyrausta 9 Pyrausta unifascialis

Vagabond Sod Webworm Moth 2 Agriphila vulgivagellus

California Grass-veneer Moth 12 Euchromius californicalis

Two-banded Catoptria Moth 13 Catoptria latiradiellus

Woolly Grass-veneer Moth 15 Thaumatopsis pexellus

Western Lawn Moth 10 Tehama bonifatella

Leach's Grass-veneer 16 Crambus leachellus

Rufous-banded Crambid Moth 17 Mimoschinia rufofascialis

Double-striped Scoparia Moth 10 Scoparia biplagialis