Windsor County, Vermont
These are some of the life forms we can find in Hartland, Vermont and all of Windsor County.
Twelve-spotted Skimmer
The Twelve-spotted Skimmer (Libellula pulchella) is a common North American skimmer dragonfly, found in southern Canada and in all 48 of the contiguous U.S. states.
Silver-spotted Skipper
The Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus) is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is claimed to be the most recognized skipper in North America.
Cecropia Moth
The Cecropia Moth (Hyalophora cecropia) is North America's largest native moth. It is a member of the Saturniidae family, or giant silk moths. Females with a wingspan of 130 mm or more have been documented. It is found as far west as the Rocky Mountains and north into the maritime provinces of Canada. The larvae of these moths are most commonly found on Maple trees, but ...more ↓
horned spanworm moth
The Filament Bearer, Bordered Thorn or Horned Spanworm Moth (Nematocampa resistaria) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from British Columbia to Nova Scotia, south to Florida and California.
bristly cutworm
The Kidney-spotted Minor or Bristly Cutworm (Lacinipolia renigera) is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is endemic to most of North America with the exception of Yukon and Alaska.
forest tent caterpillar moth
The Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth (Malacosoma disstria) is the larva of a North American moth, found throughout the United States and Canada, and most common in the eastern regions.
Spotted grass moth
The Spotted Grass Moth or Yellow Snout-moth (Rivula propinqualis) is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found throughout eastern North America from southern Canada southward to Florida and Texas and westward in the north to British Columbia and Washington. In North Carolina it is found from the Appalachian Mountains to the Atlantic coast.
milkweed tussock moth
Euchaetes egle, the milkweed tussock caterpillar or milkweed tiger moth, is a moth in the family Arctiidae. It is a common mid to late-summer feeder on milkweeds and dogbane. Like most species in this family, it has chemical defenses it acquires from its host plants, in this case, cardiac glycosides (Weller et al., 1999). These are retained into the adult stage and ...more ↓
pale beauty
The Pale Beauty (Campaea perlata) is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. The average wingspan is about 28–51 mm, and the female tends to be much larger than the male.
Evergestis pallidata
Evergestis pallidata is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It is found in Europe, North America and Northern Asia.
Large Yellow Underwing
The Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) is a moth, the type species for the family Noctuidae. It is an abundant species throughout Europe, one of the most common and most familiar moths of the region. In some years the species is highly migratory with large numbers appearing suddenly in marginal parts of the range.
eastern tent caterpillar
The Eastern tent caterpillar (Malacosoma americanum) is a univoltine, social species that forms communal nests in the branches of trees. It is sometimes confused with the gypsy moth, or the fall webworm and may be erroneously referred to as a bagworm which is the common name applied to unrelated caterpillars in the family Psychidae. The moths oviposit almost exclusively ...more ↓
Waved Sphinx Moth
The Waved Sphinx (Ceratomia undulosa) is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in the United States, and southern Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains.
White-dotted Prominent Moth
The Rough Prominent (Nadata gibbosa) is a moth of the family Notodontidae, possibly in the subfamily Notodontidae. It is also known as the White-dotted Prominent and the Tawny Prominent. This common moth is found across North America from the northern boreal forests to as far south as Florida. It is most common in deciduous forests at some elevation. It is ...more ↓
Hickory Tussock Moth
Lophocampa caryae, the Hickory Tussock Moth or Hickory Halisidota, is a moth in the family Arctiidae. Like most species in its family, the caterpillars acquire chemical defenses from their host plants (Weller et al. 1999). The behaviour and aposematic coloration of the larvae (caterpillars) also suggests chemical protection in this stage, although they have ...more ↓
burdock borer
The Burdock Borer (Papaipema cataphracta) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Quebec and Maine to Florida, west to Louisiana, north to Saskatchewan.
Darling Underwing
The Darling Underwing (Catocala cara) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. The species can be found in the Eastern part of the United States. Subspecies Catocala cara carissima is found from Georgia to Texas.
Walnut Sphinx Moth
The Walnut Sphinx (Amorpha juglandis) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains and from the southern United States up into parts of Canada.
Leconte's Haploa
Leconte's Haploa (Haploa lecontei) is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found Nova Scotia to Georgia, west to Manitoba through Arkansas.
Nursery Web Spider
Pisaurina mira is a species pf spider in the family Pisauridae, the members of which are commonly called "nursery web spiders." They are similar to wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and to the long-legged water spiders (Trechaleidae). The best way to distinguish the Pisauridae from other Families is by observing their eye patterns.
dogbane beetle
Chrysochus auratus, or the dogbane beetle of eastern North America, is a member of the insect subfamily Eumolpinae. It is primarily found east of the Rocky Mountains One of the brightest in its family, it is iridescent blue-green with a metallic copper, golden or crimson shine. Its diet consists of dogbane and milkweed. It measures between 8 and 11 mm (less than 0.5 ...more ↓
Anomala orientalis
The Oriental beetle (Anomala orientalis, not to be confused with the Japanese beetle) is a beetle about 0.7 - 1.1 cm (0.3 - 0.4 inches) long, with mottled, metallic brown- and black-colored elytra and a similarly-colored thorax and head during the adult stage. During the larval stage the oriental beetle can be identified by the parallel line raster pattern. It is native to Asia ...more ↓
Beautiful Wood-nymph Moth
Eudryas grata is a moth known as the beautiful wood nymph. The caterpillars are known to feed on the Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia).
Arched Hooktip
The Arched Hooktip or Masked Birch Caterpillar (Drepana arcuata) is a moth of the Drepanidae family. It is found from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, south to at least North Carolina, South Carolina and California.
Nicrophorus orbicollis
Nicrophorus orbicollis is a nearctic burying beetle first described by Thomas Say in 1825. It is a member of the genus Nicrophorus or sexton beetles, comprising the most common beetles in the family Silphidae. This species is a decomposer feeding on carcasses of small dead animals. N. orbicollis can be used for scientific research both medically and forensically ...more ↓
Ebony Jewelwing
The Ebony Jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata) is a species of broad-winged damselflies. It is one out of the 170 species of the Odonata found in New England, the Mid-Atlantic states, and southeastern Canada.
Common Whitetail
The Common Whitetail or Long-tailed Skimmer (Libellula lydia) is a common dragonfly across much of North America, with a striking and unusual appearance. The male's chunky white body (about 5 cm long), combined with the brownish-black bands on its otherwise translucent wings, give it a checkered look. Females have a brown body and a different pattern of wing spots, ...more ↓
Lunate Zale Moth
The Lunate Zale (Zale lunata) is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the East of North America.
European paper wasp
Polistes dominula (often misspelled as dominulus), sometimes referred to as the European paper wasp, is one of the more common and well-known species of social wasps in Europe. It is considered an invasive species in Canada and the United States.
Eastern Forktail
Eastern Forktail (Ischnura verticalis) is a member of the damselfly family Coenagrionidae.
Variable Dancer
The Variable Dancer (Argia fumipennis) is a widespread damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae, native to North America. The subspecies A. f. violacea, native to the eastern United States is also known as the Violet Dancer. It is called this because of its purple iridescent color.
Dot-tailed Whiteface
The Dot-tailed Whiteface (Leucorrhinia intacta) is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. It is also one of the most common and widespread in the genus Leucorrhinia.
Slaty Skimmer
The Slaty Skimmer (Libellula incesta) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family, native to eastern United States and southern Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. Adults are 52.8 mm (2 in) long. Mature males are dark blue with black heads. Females and juveniles have brown abdomens with a darker stripe down their backs. Adults fly from June to August.
Lapland Longspur
The Lapland Longspur or Lapland Bunting, Calcarius lapponicus, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group separated by most modern authors from the Fringillidae (Old World finches).
Osprey
The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), sometimes known as the sea hawk, fish eagle or fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts, with a black eye patch and wings. In 1994, ...more ↓
Snow Bunting
The Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), sometimes colloquially called a snowflake, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It is an arctic specialist, with a circumpolar Arctic breeding range throughout the northern hemisphere. There are small isolated populations on a few high mountain tops south of the Arctic region, including the Cairngorms in central ...more ↓
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
The Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) is a very small passerine bird found throughout North America. It is a member of the kinglet family. The bird has olive-green plumage with two white wing bars and a white eye-ring. Males have a red crown patch, which is usually concealed. The sexes are identical (apart from the crown), and juveniles are similar in plumage to adults. ...more ↓
laurel sphinx
The Laurel Sphinx (Sphinx kalmiae) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in the temperate parts of the United States and southern Canada east of the Great Plains, in the north it occurs west of the Rocky Mountains.
Common Angle
The Common Angle Moth (Macaria aemulataria) is a moth in the Geometridae family. It is found from Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Texas, north to Oregon and Alberta.
Chickweed geometer
The Chickweed Geometer (Haematopis grataria) is a species of moth of the Geometridae family. It is found throughout the United States. In Canada it is found from Quebec to Alberta, north to the Northwest Territories.
Virginia Creeper Sphinx Moth
The Virginia creeper sphinx (Darapsa myron) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives from Maine south to south Florida; west to North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Texas. It also can be found in Mexico.
Maple Looper Moth
The Maple Looper Moth (Parallelia bistriaris) is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in eastern North America.
Domestic Cat
The domestic cat (Felis catus or Felis silvestris catus) is a small, usually furry, domesticated, carnivorous mammal. It is often called the housecat, or simply the cat when there is no need to distinguish it from other felids and felines. Cats are valued by humans for companionship and ability to hunt vermin and household pests. Cats have been ...more ↓
Eastern Milkweed Longhorn beetle
Tetraopes tetrophthalmus, commonly known as the red milkweed beetle, is a beetle in the family Cerambycidae. The binomial genus and species names are both derived from the Latin for "four eyes." As in many longhorn beetles, the antennae are situated very near the eye - in the red milkweed beetle, this adaptation has been carried to an extreme: the antennal base actually ...more ↓
Grape leaf folder
The Grape Leaffolder (Desmia funeralis) is a moth of the Crambidae family. It is found across the southern parts of the United States to California, north to the north-eastern states and south-eastern Canada.
Bedstraw Hawk-moth
The Bedstraw Hawk-Moth or Gallium Sphinx (Hyles gallii) is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in North America, Europe, Central Asia and Japan.
Common Eastern Bumblebee
Bombus impatiens is the most often encountered bumblebee across much of eastern North America . Its range includes Ontario, Maine, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, south to Florida, west to Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Wyoming.
Virginia Ctenucha
The Virginia Ctenucha (Ctenucha virginica) is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is endemic to eastern North America, but has expanded its range westward. It inhabits wet meadows and open spaces with bushes from North Carolina to Canada east of the Rocky Mountains.
Glossy Black Idia
The Glossy Black Idia (Idia lubricalis) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Canada south to Florida and Texas.
copper underwing
The Copper Underwing, Humped Green Fruitworm or Pyramidal Green Fruitworm (Amphipyra pyramidea) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed across the Palaearctic region.
yellow-collared scape moth
The Yellow-collared Scape Moth (Cisseps fulvicollis) is a species of the Arctiidae family.
painted lichen moth
The Painted Lichen Moth (Hypoprepia fucosa) is a species of moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found in the United States and southern Canada east of the Rocky Mountains.
False Crocus Geometer
The False Crocus Geometer (Xanthotype urticaria) is a North American moth in the family Geometridae.
pine tree sphinx
The Northern Pine Sphinx (Lapara bobycoides) is a member of the Sphingidae family of moths. It is known from mixed and coniferous forest in southern Canada (Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island) as well as north-eastern Alberta and central Saskatchewan. In the eastern half of the United States it is found from extreme north-eastern North ...more ↓
Sigmoid Prominent Moth
The Sigmoid Prominent (Clostera albosigma) is a moth of the Notodontidae family. It is found from Newfoundland west to Vancouver Island, north to the Great Slave Lake and the Northwest Territories and south to at least Missouri.
Banded tussock moth
Halysidota tessellaris, the Banded Tussock Moth, Tessellated Halisidota, or Pale Tiger Moth is a moth in the family Arctiidae. Like most species in this family, it has chemical defenses it acquires from its host plants, in this case, alkaloids (Weller et al., 1999, Hristov and Conner 2005), at least in the adult. The brazen behaviour of the larvae also ...more ↓
Sharp-angled Carpet Moth
The Sharp-angled Carpet Moth (Euphyia intermediata) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from coast-to-coast in southern Canada and the northern United States, south in the east to North Carolina, south in the west to California, Utah, and possibly Arizona. It is also found north to the Northwest Territories.
White-Speck
The White-Speck (Mythimna unipuncta) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found nearly world-wide, except the east-Palearctic and the Eastern and Australian regions.
Bruce Spanworm
The Bruce Spanworm (Operophtera bruceata) or (in North America) "Winter Moth" is a species of moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from coast to coast in southern Canada and the northern parts of the United States.
Salt Marsh Moth
The Salt Marsh Moth or Acrea Moth (Estigmene acrea) is a North American moth in the family Arctiidae.
Black-rimmed Prominent Moth
The Black-rimmed Prominent Moth, Fissured Prominent or False-sphinx (Pheosia rimosa) is a species of moth of the Notodontidae family. It is found from coast to coast in North America, although it is less common in the south-eastern United States.
Brown-hooded Owlet
The Brown-hooded Owlet or Brown-bordered Cucullia (Cucullia convexipennis) is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the north-eastern parts of the United States and adjacent parts of Canada.
Eastern Tailed-Blue
The Eastern Tailed-blue or Eastern Tailed Blue (Cupido comyntas), also known as Everes comyntas, is a common butterfly of eastern North America. Males are generally blue on the upperside of their wings while females are lighter blue to brown or charcoal in coloring, but there are also varieties of purple and pink found in both sexes. The underside coloration ranges ...more ↓
Orgyia definita
The Definite Tussock Moth or Definite-marked Tussock Moth (Orgyia definita) is a moth of the Lymantriidae family. It is found from Maine and southern Quebec to South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and New England.
Green-winged Teal
The Green-winged Teal (Anas carolinensis) or (Anas crecca carolinensis) is a common and widespread duck that breeds in the northern areas of North America except on the Aleutian Islands. It was considered conspecific with the Common Teal (A. crecca) for some time but the issue is still being reviewed by the American Ornithologists' Union; based on ...more ↓
Phlogophora periculosa
The Brown Angle Shades (Phlogophora periculosa) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from coast to coast in the northern United States and southern Canada, south in the east to Georgia and Mississippi, south in the west to California (it is not present in Florida and the south-central states).
Clymene Moth
The Clymene Moth (Haploa clymene) is a moth of the Tiger Moth family - Arctiidae, subfamily Arctiinae. It is found in the East of North America.
Nessus Sphinx
The Nessus Sphinx (Amphion floridensis) is a day-flying moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives throughout the eastern United States and Canada and occasionally down into Mexico, and is one of the more commonly-encountered day-flying moths in the region, easily recognized by the two bright yellow bands across the abdomen.
Wavy-lined Emerald
The Wavy-lined Emerald Moth or Camouflaged Looper (Synchlora aerata) is a species of moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in most of North America.
Unicorn Prominent
The Unicorn Caterpillar Moth, Unicorn Prominent or Variegated Prominent (Schizura unicornis) is a species of moth of the Notodontidae family. It is found in all of North America, except the arctic north.
Toxomerus geminatus
Toxomerus geminatus, is a species of flower fly found from eastern Canada south to Texas.
White-spotted Sable
Anania funebris is a species of moth of the Crambidae family. It is found in Europe, Siberia, the Northern parts of the Far East and North America.
maple callus borer
The Maple Callus Borer (Synanthedon acerni) is a moth of the Sesiidae family. It is found in Western Canada.
Great Ash Sphinx
The Great Ash Sphinx or Northern Ash Sphinx (Sphinx chersis) is a moth that belongs to the family Sphingidae.
common asparagus beetle
The common asparagus beetle (Crioceris asparagi) is an important pest of asparagus crops both in Europe and in North America. Asparagus is its only food plant. The beetle is about half a centimeter long, metallic blue-black in color with cream or yellow spots on its red-bordered elytra. The larvae are fat gray grubs with dark heads.
Virgin Tiger Moth
The Virgin Tiger Moth (Grammia virgo) is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found from Newfoundland south to Florida west to Alberta.
American Idia
The American Idia or American Snout (Idia americalis) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from southern Canada to Florida and Texas.
Common Idia
The Common Idia, Powdered Snout or Waved Tabby (Idia aemula) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Canada south to Florida and Texas and in most of Eurasia.
Common Carpet
The Common Carpet (Epirrhoe alternata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East.
Tri-colored Bumble Bee
Bombus ternarius, commonly known as the Orange-belted Bumblebee or Tricoloured Bumble Bee, is a yellow, orange and black bumblebee that is commonly found throughout the eastern United States and parts of Canada.
Dark-spotted Palthis
The Dark-spotted Palthis (Palthis angulalis) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Newfoundland west to coastal British Columbia, south to Florida and Texas.
Ilia Underwing
The Ilia Underwing, Beloved Underwing or Wife Underwing (Catocala ilia) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. The species can be found in the Eastern part of the United States as well as southern Canada. Subspecies Catocala ilia zoe can be found in California and Arizona.
Black-and-yellow Lichen Moth
Lycomorpha pholus, the Black-and-yellow Lichen Moth, is a moth in the Arctiidae family. It is found from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, west to South Dakota and Texas. The habitat consists of short-grass prairie.
Clover Hayworm
The gold triangle or clover hay moth (Hypsopygia costalis) is a species of moth of the family Pyralidae. It is found in Europe. The wingspan is 16–23 mm. The adult moths fly from May to July, depending on the location. The supposed species H. aurotaenialis is included here pending further study.
Green Pug
The Green Pug (Chloroclystis rectangulata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is sometimes placed in the genus Pasiphila. It is common throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East.
Two-striped Grasshopper
The Two-striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) is a species of grasshopper belonging to the genus Melanoplus. It is considered a pest species to the United States and Canada.
Oak Beauty
Phaeoura quernaria, the Oak Beauty, is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in eastern North America, occurring as far west as east-central Alberta. The habitat consists of aspen-cherry shrubland.
