I took these Clymene Moth pictures this past weekend. This little guy was out back hanging around our raspberry plants, that are next to our peach tree, which is one of the moth larva's favorite foods. He would fly off just a few feet and then stop, so I was able to eventually snaps some pictures.
The Clymene Moth is very easy to identify, with its striking black and beige patterning, and a special sulfur yellow treat when the hind wings are exposed upon opening the fore wings. It is a member of the Arctiidae family, the Tiger Moth, which also include some woolly bear caterpillar types. In this family are some destructive species as well; fall web worms, for instance. Clymene moth larvae like Eupatorium-type plants and feed on oak, peach, and willow trees. They range from New England to Georgia and westward to the Mississippi.
Clymene, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and wife of Iapetus was the mother of Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Phaethon, Atlanta, a number of girls known as the Heliades, and others. While these Greek heroes shared the same mother, there were about three or four fathers in the mix
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