Life On A Quarter Acre

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

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Most butterflies and at many of the larger moths are fairly easy to identify from photographs (at least with the help of iNat, BugGuide, etc.). But the tiny moths (microlepidoptera) are hard to photograph and harder still to ID from photographs alone, so I often try to identify them from collected specimens. Here is a video that describes the process.