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large brown moth with white bands and eye spots on rear wings - Ascalapha odorata - female

large brown moth with white bands and eye spots on rear wings - Ascalapha odorata - Female
torrance, los angeles County, California, USA
August 13, 2010
Size: 4+ inches

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large brown moth with white bands and eye spots on rear wings - Ascalapha odorata - female large brown moth with white bands and eye spots on rear wings - Ascalapha odorata

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Your Ascalapha odorata is a female. Interesting information and some of the records can be seen at Texas Ento

You've got a...
... Black witch, Ascalapha odorata .

 
black witch
is it strange to find this in southern california??

 
Not especially strange.
The guide page says that their range encompasses "South and Central America, straying far north in the United States and southern Canada."

 
you are wonderful..thanks so
you are wonderful..thanks so much

 
thank you---wow you folks are
thank you---wow you folks are fast

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