Yellow-collared Scape Moth

Description:

Dark wings and body with a orange red collar. This moth is active during late spring and summer in fields and forest edges throughout Canada south to Texas and Florida.

Habitat:

This and others were feeding on the Gregg's Mistflower blooms.

Notes:

Adult Grapeleaf Skeletonizer (Harrisina americana) is similar but its abdomen is usually curled upwards and expanded at the tip into a fan-shaped, somewhat bilobed caudal tuft