More Urban Species by my porch light

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Hypena baltimoralis

We came home from Salem to find this handsome insect by the porch light. It spent its youth as a green worm eating the leaves of my neighbors red and silver maple trees. The species is native to forest edges in the northeast of North America. This is a stroke of luck for the moth, as the suburbs that make up much of that part of the world qualify nicely as "forest edges."