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Jim des Riviéres’ Moth collection

 

Canadian photographer Jim des Riviéres has created a series of beautiful moth collection. He caught and cataloged about 2,000 different species of moths. Riviéres believes that many moths are more beautiful than a butterfly.

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virginian tiger moth (8137 - spilosoma virginica)

maple spanworm moth (6797 - ennomos magnaria)

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cecropia moth (7767 - hyalophora cecropia)

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imperial moth (7704 - eacles imperalis pini)

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lettered habrosyne (6235 - habrosyne scripta)

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leconte's haploa moth (8111 - haploa lecontei)

white-dotted prominent moth (7915 - nadata gibbosa)

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large tolype moth (7670 - tolype velleda)

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