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grits74571 Talihina, OK Apr 14, 2012

My best guess is that this is a male Imperial Moth about 1.250 ' wide and slightly longer what do Y'all say??

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DonnaB Vancleave, MS(Zone 8b) Apr 14, 2012

Io Moth looks like to me

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Apr 16, 2012

DonnaB is right, it is the Io Moth - Automeris io: http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/178/

I have moved the image you added to the Imperial Moth to the page for the Io Moth.

Imperial Moth and Io Moth are closely related, both being in the family Saturnidae,

Ken

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