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Found what appears to be an exceedingly rare moth...on the wall at the entrance to the men's bath house at the National Science Camp. Who knew?

Thanks to @muscadine for identifying this for me. Couldn't find it anywhere (including on iNat search).

@paul_dennehy
@treichard

Ambushing Anaxyrus.
Legspan slightly more than 2 inches.
(Assuming the last two photos are of the same individual as the previous photos - I released her after photographing her, but she seemed to have climbed into my backpack and came with me home! Guess she'll be my new pet :)

Attracted to UV lights
I always called them Packardia geminata, and then changed it to
Packardia albipunctata
(dark hind wings). Now apparently it's back to geminata.
Mating pair as found on my sheet.

This is the female, wingless, white-marked Tussock moth. Life cycle here:
https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/viewSpecies.php?species=2527
If you look closely at the zoomed in photo, it looks like her side has split open and an eye is peering out. I can't find any reference that would explain what I think I'm seeing in this photo.
Anyone?

Stinging Rose Caterpillar (Parasa indetermina) Contacting this slug caterpillar causes a painful sting and the contact spot eventually swells and remains painful for hours or days. Fortunately this is a rare caterpillar.

White Flannel Moth, Norape ovina (Sepp, 1848), and Saddleback Caterpillar Moth, Acharia stimulea (Clemens, 1860), caterpillars feeding on Eastern Redbud. Both stinging caterpillars. Near Brentsville, Virginia, USA. Photo by David L. Govoni ©2017.

BugGuide: bugguide.net/node/view/33365
BaMoNA: www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Norape-ovina
EoL: eol.org/pages/381453/overview
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norape_ovina

BugGuide: bugguide.net/node/view/507
BaMoNA: www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Acharia-stimulea
EoL: eol.org/pages/10447645/overview
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddleback_caterpillar

A good friend of ours, Stan Malcolm called me this morning to let me know that he had found an Isa textual caterpillar. He regularly walks along the air line trail and is an experienced naturalist, entomologist and photographer. You can visit his blog at: www.performance-vision.com/airline/index.htm

Specimen was imaged live, stack of 85 images.

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