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Garden Tiger Moth or Brauner Bär

Arctia caja

Photo by bayucca
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Field Notes

Description:

Garden Tiger Moth or Brauner Bär, Arctia caja, Langnau im Emmental, Emmental, Switzerland

Notes:

Rescued from the street after a short but heavy thunderstrom in the early morning.

Reference Links:

Garden tiger moth, Bestimmungshilfe des Lepiforums: Arctia Caja

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
bayucca
Marta, this one is reportet from Northern Germany and the UK, so why not the Benelux?? Now you know what you have to do!! ;-) Thanks for your visits!
The MnMs
This is a nice-looking moth and I don´t think it reaches the Benelux, as I have never seen it in Belgium. Nice that you show it here for us! :-)

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