The Salt Marsh Moth

What: Estigmene acraea

Sex: Unknown

City: Washington, Texas

County: Washington

How: Caught while resting on plants along roadside.

When: May, 2001

Who: Robert J. Nuelle, Jr.

Comments: Beautiful surprise. Found this moth hiding in dense roadside flowering plants [tall yellow coneflowers]. I only saw the yellow of the hindwings.