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Nemoria sp.
Mostly green, with a few orange spots on its abdomen and with orange fringing its wings.
Drawn to light at night. The species can't be identified from just this picture.
Spotted on Jul 10, 2010
Submitted on Feb 4, 2011
2 Comments
Thanks Martin. I actually have the genus narrowed down for this species--Nemoria, I just haven't updated this spotting yet. Unfortunately, you're right, I'm not sure that I can get it down to species from just this photo.
This is an emerald moth
Family=geometridae
They are hard to ID from photos