A few weeks ago, I was working up near Glendale and was just getting ready to come home...on the side of a building I spied this NIKE moth...no lie...check out the swoosh on it's wing!!! So I took a picture of it and texted it to my pal who is a science teacher...She came up with identifying it as an Oak Silk Moth. After getting home I went to the Butterflies and Moths of North America site, clicked on the county in Oregon that I had seen it in, and searched for the silk moth....the only silk moths that are indigenous to both Douglas and Josephine County are the sheep moth and the Ceanothus Moth (Hyalophora Euryalus) ...which is what it is...check out the butterfly link that shows another picture of this beauty!http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=3283&chosen_state=41*Oregon
The cool thing about this site is you can click on the county that you're seeing the Butterfly or Moth in, and that sort of narrows your search down!
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