Jun 282014
As I turned onto Piney Woods Church Road this afternoon, I noticed this tiny orange and black moth, with a wingspan of about a quarter inch, resting on a the leaf of a sapling. More precisely, this moth appears to be doing insect yoga. With some rapid-fire help from BugGuide folks on Facebook, I was able to identify it as the Skullcap Skeletonizer Moth (Prochoreutis inflatella). My Internet research has failed to reveal why it strikes this particular pose.
