Observation date: August 31, 2011
Submitted by: ourhouse
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: hot, dry, digging up potatoes and found underground
Status: Resident
Verified by: stomlins701
Verified date: January 13, 2014
Coordinator notes: The tongue case is more elongated in M. quinquemaculata than in M. sexta, which is the case for this sighting. M. sexta is also not typically found as far north as the sighting photo locale. M. rustica, the suggested id, is found only in the east and in the deep southwest and potato is not a typical food plant for that species.