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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Slim pickin's these days

Not much of interest flying around. Had to lower my standards a bit. Here's some kind of lacewing, I imagine. It was so delicate and beautiful in person, like a miniature white, sheer fan. This photo doesn't do it justice.

Update: ID'd as the moth  Palpita quadristigmalis

Kelly and I photographed this dragonfly that he thinks is a female Black Setwing.


Tomorrow is Lajitas day for us. Hope we find something exciting there. While he was banding at CMO today I went off to get some errands done. I missed two good birds which we would have liked photos of. Such is life. Can't lay my camera down a minute. We saw one hummingbird here, but it was probably already banded and shunned the trap. Kelly was excited, though, to band a juvenile Lucifer Hummingbird at a site 3 miles from CMO. So the day was salvaged somewhat. This is the first year we've gotten Lucifers in November. Must be the abundant late monsoons gave them a chance to nest for the second or third time this year. Some of them seem newly fledged and some seem to have been fledged earlier this year, maybe in May.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not a lacewing at all, some kind of moth is what it is--I don't know what kind, but possibly something in the family Pyralidae.

Anonymous said...

It's a Crambidae moth, Palpita quadristigmalis.
Mike Rickard

Carolyn Ohl-Johnson said...

Wow, thanks guys. Really appreciate the ID.