Legion of Night: The Underwing Moths

Abstract

This volume is intended to be an up-to-date popular comprehensive treatment of the Catocala of eastern North America; in addition to having a popular appeal, it has a scientific emphasis. It includes notes on the distribution, status, seasonal occurrence and food-plants of 71 species, together with descriptions and coloured illustrations of the adults to assist in their identification. The larval food-plants include forest trees (especially hickories (Carya), walnuts (Juglans), oaks (Quercus), poplars (Populus) and willows (Salix)), fruit trees (including pear, apple and plum) and bush fruits (including Vaccinium). Collection data on Catocala spp. obtained in Massachusetts and Connecticut since 1961 are presented in appendices.