Little Metalmark (Calephelis virginiensis)

Little Metalmark (Calephelis virginiensis)

These mothlike petite beauties are rarely seen nectaring. This one is on a Balduina uniflora (Yellow Balduina) flower.

Carteret Co., NC 8/28/04.

This is earliest one ever reported in North Carolina. The wings shine with silvery metallic markings when the light hits them just right.

Carteret Co., NC, 20 April 2002.

Holly Shelter Game Land, Pender Co., NC 9/3/03.

This one was larger than average and unusually bright.

Carteret Co., NC 8/28/04.

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Revised 11/17/2004 cwcook@duke.edu