Food of curlews

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Dave

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Apr 16, 2021, 4:59:11 PM4/16/21

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Preston had photos of the Pipit Road curlews se of Longmont eating a type of caterpillar. I shared these with two of my entomology colleagues at CSU. We agree the curlews are getting “cutworms”. This term applies to a number of moths in the family Noctuidae. By far the most likely species is Euxoa auxiliaris, the infamous “miller moth”. A wonderful recent program on this insect by Dr. Whitney Cranshaw is available as a YouTube from the Fort Collins Audubon Society website. I covered this subject in the 1st “The Hungry Bird” back in April 2010, archived on the CFO website by going to the “Colorado Birds” section.

David Leatherman
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Apr 17, 2021, 12:19:00 PM4/17/21

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Couldn't find the miller moth UTube on the Ft Collins website (but did discover an archive of excellent newsletters there!);