ID help: odd pink & yellow moth
Neil Schlegel
see at msg.for.addr
Sun Jun 20 17:33:05 EDT 1999
Hello,
I saw a very strange moth a few weeks ago in Canada
(Ontario, 30 miles north of the Minnesota border) that I
couldn't find in any moth books. I thought I'd see if
anybody here knows what it is.
I saw it at rest on a window screen so I was able to
see it from both sides.
First, the view from above:
Approx. 1" from head to tip of the wings.
Each wing has a triangle shape and they are angled
down to cover the body (none or very little of the
body is visible from above).
Tbe wings were pink and yellow (solid colors, no spots).
Imagine a pink wing that has a stripe of yellow emerging
from the center line where the two wings meet and going
out to the tip of the wing. The yellow stripe gets wider as
it goes from the middle out to the far point of the wing.
This stripe makes the color of the wing alternate
pink-yellow-pink as you go from head to tail.
The head was bright fuzzy yellow, reminding me of a
thick head of very blond hair. Its front legs were bright
fuzzy pink. These front legs stuck out in front of its
head and were visible from above.
>From underneath, the body was fuzzy yellow. I guess
I didn't write down the color of all the legs; I just know
the front legs (visible from the top) were pink.
The fuzzy colors (head, body and front legs) were bright--the
yellow and pink of the wings were faded in comparison.
I didn't get anything written down on its antenna. I honestly
don't remember them being there, but I must have just
missed it.
I'd appreciate anybody's guess as to what this one is--thanks!
Neil
schlegel 'at' tiny 'dot' net
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