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chairman bill wrote:

felltoearth wrote:I thought Cali might enjoy this one reposted by a Facebook friend. Shot in Virginia. Looks like candy.




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It's a Rosy Maple moth - Dryocampa rubicunda

And Chairman Bill beat me to it on this one. Amazingly, it's also a silkmoth, Family Saturniidae, but a very small one. Most people think of silkmoths as large moths with wingspans of 5 inches or more (some species are 10 or 11 inches across), but this one is a tiny Saturniid, that catches a LOT of people out, looking for something in the Erebidae or Noctuidae because of its small size.

As for Nineberry's specimen, that's Haploa clymene.