Thread: What is this?
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Old 11-02-2012, 03:42 PM   #2183
BigV
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr View Post
First off, I don't know what kind of bug this be...That's why I'm asking you.

We saw dozens of these things hitting our Zinnias (?) pretty hard the other day. I've never seen these things before.

4 wings, 2 of which are vertically oriented, like the tail surfaces on an F-14 Tomcat jet.

Anybody got any ideas?

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antenna "knobs" indicate butterfly, not moth. consistent with vertical wing resting.

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/c...utterflies.htm
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