Searching For America's Rarest Moth

Join me as I venture into the bogs of upstate New York in search of a moth species left over from the last ice age! Pick up the poster here: https://store.nebula.tv/collections/atlas-pro Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/atlaspro Sources / Further Reading: https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/sgcnbogbbuckmoth.pdf https://www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/2023/03/rare-moth-living-in-this-upstate-new-york-county-listed-as-endangered-species.html#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Fish%20and%20Wildlife%20Service%20yesterday%20listed%20the%20bogbean,County%20and%20in%20Ontario%2C%20Canada. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/10/14/2021-21856/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-endangered-species-status-for-bog-buck-moth https://www.sleloinvasives.org/invasives/native-species/bog-buckmoth/ https://www.fws.gov/species/bog-buck-moth-hemileuca-maia-menyanthevora https://www.endangeredspecieslawandpolicy.com/assets/htmldocuments/NewBlogs/EndangeredSpecies/Bog%20Buckmoth%20-%20NY%20Sea%20Grant.pdf https://files.ontario.ca/environment-and-energy/species-at-risk/bogbean_buckmoth_map_eng.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/26453819 https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/yfideercrkmarshhmp.pdf https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/mapdeercreekmarsh.pdf https://wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-wildflowers-buckbean-menyanthes-trifoliata.html#:~:text=Buckbean%20(Menyanthes%20trifoliata)%20is%20a,plant%20is%20also%20called%20Bogbean. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.116596/Hemileuca_maia_menyanthevora https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341079677_A_phenotypic_comparison_of_regional_populations_of_Hemileuca_maia_Drury_1773_with_designations_of_new_subspecies_Bombycoidea_Saturniidae_Hemileucinae https://therevelator.org/species-spotlight-bog-buck-moth/ https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=taxrpt https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/species/8023 https://ecos.fws.gov/docs/recovery_plan/BogBuckMoth%20Recovery%20Outline_final_27%20April%202023%20signed.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-03-15/pdf/2023-05012.pdf#page=1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.07.487535v1.full