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A beautiful moth with black and white markings on its wings. Unfortunately it was found dead.
Woods, grass
Spotted on Sep 3, 2012
Submitted on Sep 3, 2012
2 Comments
Your moth looks like the Explicit Arches Moth (Lacinipolia explicata).
See http://bugguide.net/node/view/30731 for a species guide.
See http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/2283... for a DC/MD moth mission.
It certainly was a beauty