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What type of moth have I caught...?

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Today, at around 1:30 AM I caught a moth. It looks from wing to wing like it's about 1cm long. I'm not sure of the color, because when I caught it I put it in a colored plastic cup. But beforehand, from what I can tell, it was light brownish. From what I could tell, it was a pretty bad flyer[sp?]. It flew onto my computer screen (3 feet off ground) then flew off, then stayed about an inch or two off the ground at most, and it kept moving around like it was injured, however I looked at it closesly and it was not. So I figured it's species are just bad flyers, or it's still young. I'm in Queens, New York, if it helps.

I would like to keep him/her, and would like to know it's species so that I can properly feed it and eventually let it go. :)

And some not-so-helpful picture are here,

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u53/railaco/Photo1207.jpg

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u53/railaco/Photo1206.jpg

On the second picture, the setting was sepia. so it's not exactly that brown.

thanks

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  1. Sorry, but there are still far too many possibilities


  2. Narrow down your search at these sites -

    http://www.einsteins-emporium.com/life/a...

    http://www.whatsthatbug.com/

    http://www.insectimages.org/

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