Photo 915252, (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda

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What

Western Tussock Moth (Orgyia vetusta)

Observer

kueda

Date

June 5, 2014 09:12 PM PDT

Description

One of several at the light, and we saw a caterpillar on Ceanothus the next night. I didn't realize the females were flightless! They look like little hairballs (see Joyce Gross's excellent photo series on the life history of this moth at http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/Files/Live/JGross/TussockMothParasitoids.htm).

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