{"id":892,"date":"2016-09-14T08:14:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=892"},"modified":"2016-09-14T08:14:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:14:59","slug":"arcigera-flower-moth-schinia-arcigera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"Arcigera flower moth <em>(Schinia arcigera)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/arcigera_flower_moth_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-893\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/arcigera_flower_moth_02.jpg\" alt=\"arcigera flower moth\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/arcigera_flower_moth_02.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/arcigera_flower_moth_02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/arcigera_flower_moth_02-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arcigera flower moth <em>(Schinia arcigera)<\/em> is common and widespread across North America from the east coast to the Rocky Mountains. In Minnesota, it is found from late July to mid-September in fields with asters.<\/p>\n<p>It is active at night and is attracted to light, but can be also found taking nectar on flowers during the day.<\/p>\n<p>This is a small owlet moth. The adult is about \u00bd\u2033 long and has a wingspan of \u215e\u2033 to 1\u2033. It is distinguished from similar moths by dark brown and pale brown coloration, and by a white, smoothly curved, broadly S-shaped postmedial line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/arcigera_flower_moth.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/arcigera_flower_moth.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=892\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcigera flower moth (Schinia arcigera) is common and widespread across North America from the east coast to the Rocky Mountains. In Minnesota, it is found from late July to mid-September in fields with asters. It is active at night and is attracted to light, but can be also found taking nectar on flowers during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[356,357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}