A photo of the top of a longly triangular white moth marked with many dark rings as it rests on a white sheet.. The moth's legs are darkly iridescent blue towards the tips, and spotted white and blue closer to the body. Thhe head is small and long slender darkly iridescent blue antennae sweep back along the body and wings. The body and wings are white and marked with many rings that appear black from this angle but are the same darkly iridescent blue.

A macro photo of the moth's thorax, which is marked by 4 irregularly oblong dark rings filled and surrounded by bright white scales.

A macro photo of the upper part of the moth's wings where the left wing slightly overlaps with the right. Dark rings cover both white wings, the tiny scales that cover the wings visible at this magnification.

Good Morning friends ( #NightShiftLife LOL) A Giant Leopard #Moth, #Hypercompe scribonia came to visit this week. This one had rings instead of spots.

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A photo of the top of the head and forebody of a white moth with darkly iridescent blue spots and rings as it rests on weathered wood. The moth's legs are darkly iridescent blue at the tips, then brilliant white closer to the body. The antennae are blue on one side, gray on the other. The moth's head is white and the thorax behind is white and features 2 darkly iridescent blue rings. The wings below the thorax are white and feature both rings and full spots of the shiny dark blue.

I had a very cooperative Giant Leopard #Moth, #Hypercompe Scribonia, visit the other night and I was able to practice focus stacking.

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A photo of the front of a white moth that is covered with darkly iridescent blue spots. The moth has long slender antennae that are the same dark shiny blue, as well as markings on the under side of its head in the same color. The eyes which are tucked on the underside of its head are a dark bronze orange. The legs are white and banded with the same blue.

Happy #MacroMonday/#MothMonday. This is a focus stack (Done with Helicon Focus) of the giant leopard moth, #Hypercompe scribonia that visited me this week.

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A photo of the face of the Giant Leopard Moth. The moth's body is white and covered with large dots that from a distance appear black, but up-close as in this photo are revealed to be darkly iridescent blue. These blue markings extend to bands on the legs, and markings on the face. The moth's eyes are a coppery orange color.

A photo of the green Bad Wing Moth, a pretty moth in the family Geometridae. The moth is a pale green color with 2 distinct narrow white bands extending across both wings and a very pale white line on the rear area of the fore wing. The moth's fore wings are markedly larger than the rear wings, and this moth's name was given due to their size making it difficult to mount the moth with wings spread in collections.

A photo of a brown and black caddis fly taken from the the front side. The caddis fly has long slender black antennae which extend out from the small head which feature two glossy black eyes. The long wing cover and obscure the flys body and are glossy brown with a densely complex reticulated pattern in black.

A photo of the dorsal surface of a Mountain Dew-Green jumping spider. The spider has slender legs covered in very fine spine-like hairs. It's slender abdomen is covered in fine golden hairs and features 8 small dots in two rows of black. The spider's head is covered in bright orange and white hair-like scales and is covered in eyes giving the spider 360 degree vision.

More fun visitors from last night.
1. Giant Leopard Moth, #Hypercompe scribonia
2. Bad Wing Moth, #Dyspteris abortivaria
3. A Caddis Fly, #Phryganeidae
4. The Magnolia Green Jumping #Spider, # viridis

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A photo of the front of a white moth with darkly iridescent blue spots and legs resting on a white sheet

A photo of the right front of a white moth with darkly iridescent blue spots, legs and facial markings taken very low down.

A macro photo of the face of a white moth with dark eyes, darkly iridescent blue facial markings and spots.

Good morning Bluesky! A giant leopard #Moth, #Hypercompe scribonia, visited this week and posed for some portraiture.

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A photo of two moths on a light surface. On the left is a large dart-shaped white moth with dark iridescent blue spots, on the right is a smaller white dart-shaped moth with script-like black markings.

A larger photo of the smaller moth, the Hebrew Moth. The moth is angled to the right and is resting on a light background. alternating black and white spots cover the fringes of the wings while script-like black markings cover the white wings.

Detail of the head of the Leopard moth, showing the iridescent blue spots in greater detail

Here's some moth friends for your Thursday, the Giant Leopard Moth, #Hypercompe scribonia on the left and the Hebrew Moth, #Polygrammate hebraeicum on the right. A close up of the Hebrew moth and detail of the Leopard Moth's head spots are also included!

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An arrow shaped white moth marked with many darkly iridescent blue rings

A close up of the moth's head showing the iridescent blue on the antennae and leges

A chonky black caterpillar on some pine straw, covered in many spine-like hairs and marked with faint orange rings.

It's not every night that I get both larval and adult forms of an insect to photograph. This is the Giant Leopard #Moth, #Hypercompe scribonia, both the spectacular adult, and a chonky #caterpillar (nearly 3 inches (7.6cm) long! )

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