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ds2 Cozumel, Mexico(Zone 11) May 24, 2010

Found this guy resting on my pitaya plant in Cozumel, MX around 11am. Never seen one of these before but found photos on this site -- none with a rusty blotch on the head as this one.

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kwanjin (Zone 7a) May 24, 2010

Certainly looks like one. Hypercompe scribonia

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV May 24, 2010

This is a relatively 'old' moth that has lost a lot of its scales. The orange spot simply is a bare patch of its exoskeleton exposed by scale loss. see http://tinyurl.com/366bpxl for a relatively recently emerged specimen.

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ds2 Cozumel, Mexico(Zone 11) Jun 02, 2010

Thank you!

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