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Arachnis picta
Gray, black and white moth with a red abdomen underneath wings and on front legs. The underside of the wings are gray, red and gold. Eggs are small, round and pearly white. The newly hatched eggs & caterpillars can be seen at spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/792.... "The wingspan is about 50 mm. The moth flies during the summer." - Wikipedia
Unknown species of Acacia tree in backyard near orchard. The range is from "Central and southern California to Colorado, south to western Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona" - BugGuide According to Wikipedia, the range is "... the South-Western United States and the bordering parts of Mexico."
I submitted images of the baby caterpillars to BugGuide at: http://bugguide.net/node/view/598303
Spotted on Nov 3, 2011
Submitted on Nov 3, 2011
20 Comments
Thank you jgorneau! Done :)
Amazing; I will add one of your spottings as the mission icon for a week if you add more info!!!
look at those eggs!!
Thank you BonzPondriiztour and textless! She was so pretty and the eggs just glowed! My latest spotting shows how they look nearly purple a day before the caterpillars emerge (last image of that series).
Wow, this is really cool!
Wow beautiful
Thank you Antonio! I was very excited with this spotting!
fantastic spot cindy" the eggs look like pearls"i agreed whith Atul and the moment exact of the posture that you spot,in rigth time,perfect and very cool
Thank you SmallWonders
Nice spots!!
You're so bad Darwin26 :) They're much too pretty to eat.
ummmmm Tiger Moth roe - sauted w/ waffers and a dash of spices. serve warm or cold.
Thank you Atul
superb spotting the eggs look like pearls
Thanks Emma. I think so too :)
cool!
Thank you Dan, KarenL and Craig! The eggs were just as pretty as the moth :) The unknown tree can be seen at: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/713... It's next to an orchard of oranges, lemons, peaches and avocados.
Really cool. Be good to see the tree it was laying on too. The Wiki just lists herbacious plants as food plants including Raddish and Acanthus
Lovely spot!
Nice spotting! Cool that you caught it with the eggs too.