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A Rosy Maple Moth [Dryocampa rubicunda] to brighten up your day.

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A moth is resting on a window screen. Its body is fuzzy and golden yellow while each wing has a pale yellow stripe bordered by pale pink stripes.

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1y

An Agreeable Tiger Moth [Spilosoma congrua] doing its best bat impression in the slats of my deck.

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Side view of a moth in between two deck boards. It is approximately 1.5 inches long, facing upward with its wings tucked tightly behind it. Its head is white and looks like a fuzzy pom-pom. It has small antennae that are somewhat striped looking, black and white. There are 2 or 3 visible tiny black spots on its outer wing. The gap between the two planks is only ¼ inch.

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It may look like a nozzle brush with funky colored bristles, but this is the dapper Milkweed Tussock Moth Caterpillar!

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Closeup of a caterpillar resting on a shiny rock. The caterpillar appears to be all bristles - tufts of black and white on its sides and orange and black on its top. No body parts are visible except all these bristles.

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Today's #MothOfTheDay is a nationally scarce micro #moth. But one did visit the moth box Friday night. If you see spindle covered in massive webs, it is likely to be a common, indeterminate form of yponomeuta spindle ermine. This one, with grey suffusion, however, is not common at all:

SCARCE SPINDLE ERMINE
yponomeuta irrorella

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Side on shot of 0.5cm moth on a wooden outdoors table. It faces right. It is long and tubular, holding its wing very tight to its abdomen It is white with a number of random black dots, particularly more so running in a line along the outside wing edge close to the table surface, but they are generally all over. Its distinctive markings from other yponomeuta species are areas of grey suffusion, a faint spot on its back, a larger smudge in the middle of the wing, and again greying to the fringed termen (back wing edge furthest away from its head). It has two coiled orange galeae (like a thin, long tongue) for feeding and long white antennae which it holds close to its body. It has a tiny head which pinhead eyes (right side only visible in this picture) and two palps (lips) which curve up from its mouth. It also has thin white legs.

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