><http://tardigrade.org/corkboard/brown-moth.jpg> Found it! Zale lunata. <http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/2001/macronw/112.htm>. Caterpillar is <http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/2000/catnw/pht42.htm>. They tend to eat willows but are polyphagous on other trees and shrubs. Even better than finding a probable ID on my moth via random browsing, was finding that you can batch download sections of the Moths of North America site, and have your own local copies of "Macromoths of Northwest Forests and Woodlands" and of "Caterpillars of Pacific Northwest Forests and Woodlands". Links to the .zip files are at the bottoms of the contents pages: <http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/2001/macronw/macronw.htm> <http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/2000/catnw/catnw.htm> And lots more interesting stuff at the parent level: <http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/RESOURCE.HTM> -- Allyn Weaks allyn@tardigrade.net Seattle, WA Sunset zone 5 Pacific NW Native Wildlife Gardening: http://www.tardigrade.org/natives/ "The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression." Thomas Jefferson
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