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Spilosoma Virginica
White moth with fuzzy thorax and fuzzy antenna. This moth had stripes in the end of the legs like if it was wearing socks! The moth had two black dots on each wing, one dot closer to the thorax and one dot between the upper dot and the end of the wing, both dots stand out from the white of the body of the moth just as it's two big black eyes.
Grass of a backyard, under the leaf of a clover.
It may have just recently hatched as it did not fly higher than about 20 centimeters off the ground when I accidentally scared it. It also searched for another leaf to rest under after flying for a few seconds, grabbing onto a grass blade and climbing up, once it didn't find a leaf it moved onto the next blade of grass until it reached another clover and rested under one of the tiny leaves.
Spotted on May 29, 2020
Submitted on May 29, 2020
1 Comment
Hi jesrivera95,
fascinating little moth! thanks for sharing such detailed notes.
welcome back to Project Noah!