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An Agreeable Tiger Moth [Spilosoma congrua] doing its best bat impression in the slats of my deck.
It may look like a nozzle brush with funky colored bristles, but this is the dapper Milkweed Tussock Moth Caterpillar!
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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