Comments on: Ask An Entomologist: Whats That Bug? http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/11/12/ask-an-entomologist-whats-that-bug/ An Entomologist's Blog Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:17:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Peg Boehm http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/11/12/ask-an-entomologist-whats-that-bug/#comment-4461 Peg Boehm Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:28:02 +0000 http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/11/12/ask-an-entomologist-whats-that-bug/#comment-4461 The following is a description of an insect I found, and, I'm sorry to say, killed, in my bathtub here in Southwest Florida. It was about 3/4 of an inch long, very slender with long legs. What distinguished it was its color--a beautiful dark red-orange. No wings I could see. And it was 6-legged. Thanks The following is a description of an insect I found, and, I’m sorry to say, killed, in my bathtub here in Southwest Florida. It was about 3/4 of an inch long, very slender with long legs. What distinguished it was its color–a beautiful dark red-orange. No wings I could see. And it was 6-legged.

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]]> By: Kelley http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/11/12/ask-an-entomologist-whats-that-bug/#comment-2648 Kelley Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:40:42 +0000 http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/11/12/ask-an-entomologist-whats-that-bug/#comment-2648 Good call ;) Good call ;)

]]> By: bug_girl http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/11/12/ask-an-entomologist-whats-that-bug/#comment-2632 bug_girl Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:51:05 +0000 http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/11/12/ask-an-entomologist-whats-that-bug/#comment-2632 Actually, that isn't a Sesiid. It looks like a polka-dot moth to me, which is an arctiid. http://flnature.org/species.asp?species=Syntomeida_epilais Actually, that isn’t a Sesiid. It looks like a polka-dot moth to me, which is an arctiid.

http://flnature.org/species.asp?species=Syntomeida_epilais

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