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    Oxydia geminata

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    Sericoptera mahometaria

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    Opisthoxia phrynearia

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    No ID

    For investigative readers try to find out what this is. It has stumped several experts.
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    Hammaptera ignifera

    A flying carpet
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    Hypercompe laeta

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    Euglyphis sp.

    But which one?
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    Fuzzy Wuzzy

    Possibly a Euglyphis sp.
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    Dot-lined White

    Or Artace cribrarius is a moth commonly reported from the US East coast but this appears to be the only reported sighting of it from Colombia according to iNaturalist
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    An Unusual Moth

    Megaphysa herbiferalis from Colombia and Ecuador
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    Opisthoxia lineata

    This species appears to be rather unreported.
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    Cerodirphia mota

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    Snazzy Moth

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    Thoscora acca

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    Who Knew...

    ...that moths can be psychedelic.
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    A Special Moth

    According to a Colombian student of Lepidoptera this moth is identified as Eucereon albinota. It was first identified (8 kilometers from my home) in 1910 by Paul Dognin, a French entomologist whose collections are now in the National Museum of History in Washington DC. The identifier of my photo...
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    Tricky Tricky

    Look like a dangerous wasp when you're really just an inoffensive moth.
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    A Moth

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    Red In Tooth And Claw

    This is a special moth. Only 24 have been collected in Colombia and two in Ecuador. Human intervention in nature so often produced sad results. After photographing this moth having coaxed it onto a leaf I then moved it to nearby shrubbery where it would be hidden from predators. The little...
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    Automeris crtptica

    This is a special moth. Only 24 have been collected in Colombia and two in Ecuador. Human intervention in nature so often produced sad results. After photographing this moth having coaxed it onto a leaf I then moved it to nearby shrubbery where it would be hidden from predators. The little...
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