The Moth Man
Jun 18, 2019
3 minutes
By Susan L. Ebert
About 10 years ago, Stuart Marcus, refuge manager for the Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge, arrived early one morning at his office to find that a tiny visitor had stopped by.
Sporting glistening spiked hair and garbed in an exotic dayglo fuchsia/tangerine/black ensemble, this emissary from the order lepidoptera might well have been saying, “I’m here to introduce you to my tribe.”
Curiosity aroused, Marcus snapped a photo and uploaded it to the Butterflies and Moths of North America website, which identified his flamboyant guest as a (Spanish moth), a rare visitor
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