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Acontia cretata
White, brown and yellow moth that mimics a bird dropping. This moth was 1.5 cm long and crawled on my finger.
Under porch light in the backyard. "Widespread throughout southern and central United States, as far north as extreme southern Saskatchewan, Canada and south into Mexico."
Spotted on Apr 6, 2014
Submitted on Apr 7, 2014
4 Comments
Thank you Christine!
Beautiful! Great spotting.
Thank you Lauren! This was the first moth at the light :)
Beautiful Cindy!