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Spilosoma congrua
A small (nickle to quarter-sized), white, fluffy Moth (?) with a yellow beak-looking thing on its face.
On a hiking trail that ran between a lake (Annie Battle Lake) and semi-dense woods in Glendalough State Park
This moth looked like a mini-bird to me with what appeared to be a dark-yellow, beak-like thing on its face. It didn't fly horizontally but seemed to do more up-and-down fluttering or crawling...perhaps it was injured, dying or depositing its eggs...? Since it wasn't "flying" in the normal fashion, it was fairly easy to follow and photograph.
ForestDragon-Thank you soooo much for helping me id this little fellow! I absolutely loved this moth and would like to find and photograph more in the future. I wonder if they developed this bird-face to help deter predators...? Its cute, whatever its purpose though. "-)
Nice find! Tiger Moths are so pretty.
There is another species that looks almost the same called Virginia Tiger Moth, Spilosoma virginica. However, that species has yellow markings on the abdomen.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/701488/bgi...
Your moth clearly has an all white abdomen (see picture 2).
Spotted on Jun 4, 2012
Submitted on Sep 17, 2012
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