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Having problems IDing some bugs
I have several pictures. I have been on your website for the past 3 1/2 hours and have been unable to locate all of our bug picture collection. I have sent you a few of them. I would appreciate your help. My 7 year old son and I have been collecting bug pictures for quite some time and have looked in several books and several web sites. Your’s by far is the best. Thanks. p.s. we live in central Oklahoma, that might prove helpful in the identification. Thanks again.
Mitzi

Hi Mitzi,
In order to streamline our posting, we will try to identify your creatures one at a time. BugGuide identifies this moth as one ot the Tiger Moths in the genus Apantesis and says: “Identification of species is difficult, and the taxonomy may still be rather confused. ” Our Insects of the Los Angeles Basin by Charles Hogue shows a nearly identical moth, Hewletts Tiger Moth, Notarctia hewletti, but we suspect the taxonomy is outdated.

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