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The sand-verbena moth was found on just a few beaches and spits on Vancouver Island and Whidbey Island, and it only occupies sites with windblown sand and large and dense populations of A. latifolia, ...

The moth depends entirely on yellow sand-verbena (Abronia latifolia) for survival, relying on the plant for every stage of its life cycle. “This moth’s fate is tied directly to the health of ...

Yellow sand verbena, beach evening primroses and heliotrope bloom at Abbotts Lagoon, and pungent coyote mint shows off its purple flowers along Palomarin Trail and Coast Trail at Point Reyes.

The moths survive only in a handful of populations found in dunes along the Salish Sea in Washington state and on Vancouver Island, B.C. They’re dependent for every phase of their lifecycle on their ...

It also defends plants from hungry predators. A few years ago, my colleagues and I studied yellow sand verbena (Abronia latifolia) plants in coastal California. When we gently removed sand from ...

Copablepharon viridisparsa hopfingeri moths are light beige or a dusty yellow color. Sand-verbena moth (Copablepharon fuscum) Sand-verbena moths are common in Washington and typically live along ...

Yellow Desert Sunflowers and Desert Sand Verbena colorize an area north of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Photo by Chris Stone The Board of Supervisors voted 3-0 Wednesday in favor of a ...

A resident of Ucluelet, she pointed out that this insect is named after the yellow sand-verbena flower, which is essential for it to survive. She said that’s because sand-verbena moths drink its ...

NATURE — The Yellowstone sand verbena is known to grow in only one place in the world, protected by a grand national park and a handful of botanists who guard the location with a leak-proof ...

latifolia, yellow sand verbena, which is found along Pacific Shores from Baja to British Columbia. The sand-verbena moth uses yellow sand verbena as its host plant, meaning that it is the site of ...