Thanks, I really appreciate it.

What family is this?

Family, Notodontidae; Subfamily, Heterocampinae.

Well it sure looks like it. It even has the coloration on the wings the same. Let me know if this is for sure.

By the way, I had another post back on 03/17/2007 that I never got any response back on. Could you look at it and see what you think ?
It's at http://bugguide.net/node/view/98734

I remember that one, but honestly that specimen is so worn that ID isn't likely. The 'bald spot' is exactly that from 'wear and tear.' The best I could give on that specimen is that it's likely a Geometrid moth, possibly in the subfamily Ennominae. But with that much wear, it's really just a shot in the dark.

Wear from what ?

Honestly, it's just wear from life. As they go about scales are brushed off, scraped off, and by the end of many moths lives, they are only worn shadows of what they were when they eclosed.

Wow! That's very interesting. I knew the scales come off easily but I guess it never occured to me that over time, over a moths life, that it could lose them down to the "skin". But what could it have been doing that would cause it to lose its' scales just in that one spot on its' back ?

Often times these small moths will end up in tight spaces and as they work to get out they will brush quite a bit off. I see this all too often when they accidentally lodge themselves in siding crevices around the porch light and then work feverishly to get out.