{"id":1002695,"date":"2009-09-28T06:24:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T11:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002695"},"modified":"2009-09-28T06:39:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T11:39:02","slug":"moth-monday-visits-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/nature\/bugs\/2009\/09\/28\/moth-monday-visits-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Moth Monday Visits New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that a lot of the moths I&#8217;ve posted lately have been rather, small, brown, and dull; even if from a taxonmoic view they&#8217;re quite diverse. Thus I was really happy to find these showy Ailanthus Webworm Moths on Saturday&#8217;s  Brooklyn Bird Club field trip to Sandy Hook and Richard W. Dekorte Park:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Ailanthus-webworm-moth.jpg\" alt=\"Orange and white patterned moth on white flowers\" title=\"Ailanthus webworm moth\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1002697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Ailanthus-webworm-moth.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Ailanthus-webworm-moth-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Atteva punctella<\/i>, Hodges#2401<br \/>\nSandy Hook, New Jersey, 2009-09-26<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This native Ermine Moth species is active in the daytime. It&#8217;s originally from Florida where it feeds on the native Paradise Tree <i>Simarouba glauca<\/i>. However it&#8217;s expanded its food sources to include a number of exotic trees including Tree of Heaven, <i>Ailanthus altissima<\/i>; and has thus managed to expand its range northward as far as Canada. It&#8217;s the only member of its genus in North America.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Ailanthus-Webworm-Moth-2.jpg\" alt=\"Orange and white patterned moth on white flowers\" title=\"Ailanthus Webworm Moth\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1002700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Ailanthus-Webworm-Moth-2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Ailanthus-Webworm-Moth-2-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/430\">BugGuide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu\/species.php?hodges=2401\">Moth Photographer&#8217;s Group<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ailanthus_webworm\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that a lot of the moths I&#8217;ve posted lately have been rather, small, brown, and dull; even if from a taxonmoic view they&#8217;re quite diverse. Thus I was really happy to find these showy Ailanthus Webworm Moths on Saturday&#8217;s Brooklyn Bird Club field trip to Sandy Hook and Richard W. Dekorte [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[193,145,111,192],"class_list":["post-1002695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs","tag-ermine-moths","tag-insects","tag-moths","tag-tree-of-heaven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002695"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002703,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002695\/revisions\/1002703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}