280 days of Urbpandemonium #148

There are some beautiful sculpted contours on this Dark-spotted palthis Palthis angulalis*. This species is one of two in its genus in North America. The caterpillars feed on a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and other plants.



* Nobody seems to know what Palthis means. Angulalis refers to the angular appearance of the animal.

Stone Zoo BugBlitz 2015

A bunch of the insects and other animals we saw at last week's bugblitz at Stone Zoo didn't make it into the 280 days of Urbpandemonium project. This nondescript crane fly deserves its own post, but I've no idea what it is beyond infraorder Tipulamorpha. Lovely and perfectly harmless, like most insects.

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