Colorado fires and firemoths

Typical members of the large and common moth family Noctuidae are drab, dark-colored, and mottled, so they are well camouflaged when they rest on tree bark, rocks, or lichens. Picture gray, brown, black, and salt-and-pepper moths. But members of a unique subfamily of noctuids – the flowermoths, subfamily Heliothinae – are camouflaged on the flowers of their larval host plants and adult nectar plants. Imagine pink, purple, red, yellow, and white...