Mating Peach Tree Borers

Subject: What is this?
Location: Denver Colorado
August 5, 2015 3:58 pm
Hi. My nephew sent me this picture from their backyard. Have to love summertime in the rocky mountains! No one know what this is. We hope you can help.
Thank you
Signature: Hillary Arellano

Mating Peach Tree Borers

Hi Hillary,
Despite the lack of critical focus, the distinctive markings of these sexually dimorphic, mating Peach Tree Borers, Synanthedon exitiosa, are quite apparent.  The darker individual in the pair with the bright orange band is the female.  Peach Tree Borers are moths in the Clearwing family Sesiidae.

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