CLOSED: Small black moth with white polkadots, in southern Ontario

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RosemaryA Toronto, ON(Zone 5b) May 23, 2010

Sorry this isn't the greatest picture. It's about 2 cm across. Here it's resting on the underside of a burdock leaf. Anyone recognize it? Thanks!

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV May 23, 2010

This appears to be an eight-spotted forester (Alypia octomaculata; Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) - see http://tinyurl.com/25du3pq for an image.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV May 24, 2010

Correction - Upon further thought, I now believe that this is a forester look-alike, namely a white-spotted sable moth (Anania funebris; Lepidoptera: Crambidae) - see http://tinyurl.com/394cpro and note the more orange cast to the scales at the sides of its thorax and lack of orange tufts on the front legs characteristic of the forester moth. My apologies for the mistake.

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