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grampapa Wheatfield, NY(Zone 6a) Sep 15, 2007

The last instars of the Virginian Tiger Moth (Spilosoma virginica) are dark red like this, but seem to have longer hair from what I see in my ID book. Sorry it's not a clearer pic, but they always surprise me LOL

thx...jan

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Sep 15, 2007

I'm not sure either, the tufts look too short, are you going to raise him?

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grampapa Wheatfield, NY(Zone 6a) Sep 16, 2007

No, I'm not really equipped for that yet. and he was gone when I went back out. I think I'll post on the b'fly forum, too.

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grampapa Wheatfield, NY(Zone 6a) Sep 16, 2007

I looked thru the whole plant today and found a smaller one...obviously an earlier instar of the same species. It does have longer hair. So it may be a yellow bear. It's so hard to tell from pics. I had a heck of time getting a focus on this one.

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Sep 16, 2007

That one does look like a Yellow Bear to me.

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grampapa Wheatfield, NY(Zone 6a) Sep 18, 2007

thanks for the input, fly_girl

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