Geina tenuidactyla

July 7, 2002

I came across these Plume Moths

(family Pterophoridae) here and there while exploring some meadows with friends in the nearby town of Guilford.  I've never seen them gathering as in the nectaring group on the daisy pictured to the right!*

I love the plume moths!  They fly like wispy helicopters fighting an updraft.

*Found them in yard 

July 12, 2003 gathering 

on a Black-eyed Susan