Subject: Brown Moth
Geographic location of the bug: Hide-A_Way Hills, Hocking Cty, OH 43107
Date: 06/18/2020
Time: 08:39 AM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: Found this by our front door, June 16, 2020. Could not find the exact same one online. What is it?
How you want your letter signed: Jan
Tulip Tree Silkmoth
Dear Jan,
This looks to us like a male Tulip Tree Silkmoth, Callosamia angulifera, and it is pictured on BugGuide. It is one of the Giant Silkmoths in the family Saturniidae. Giant Silkmoths only live a few days, long enough to mate. They do not feed as adults.
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source https://www.whatsthatbug.com/2020/06/26/male-tulip-tree-silkmoth/
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