Tag: bombycidae

• The Spotted Apatelodes

  

  That’s the Spotted Apatelodes, Apatelodes torrefacta, a beautiful moth of the Bombycidae (Silkworm Moths) family which is commonly mistaken for the somewhat similar looking Sphinx Moth.

  Devon Bowker

  April 5, 2017

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