Professional difference-noticer. Naturalist and writer. Author of Moths of Western North America (January 2026). Co-author of the Peterson Field Guides to Moths of Northeastern (2012) and Southeastern (2016) North America.

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I welcome all ID corrections - as a mom of young kids, I don't have the time I used to to be able to work through identifications if I don't already know the species, so I frequently accept iNat's automatically generated suggestions.