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Virginia tiger moth

Spilosoma virginica

Photo by SheaEckert
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Description:

I think he was sleeping so I could get really close to him. And i'm sure he wasn't dead because I brushed the leaves while I was walking away and he fluttered a bit.

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Jacob Gorneau
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PublishedJuly 14, 2011

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