2024 City Nature Challenge from Dallas-Ft Worth! Observations documented at the University of North Texas Diamond Eagle Community Learning Area & Pollinative Prairie in Denton, Texas
2024 City Nature Challenge from Dallas-Ft. Worth. Observations documented at the Paloma Creek Pollinative Prairie, a sand prairie remnant on USGS property, listed as protected. (Aubrey/Little Elm, Texas in Denton Co.)
Interesting to see the pinwheel shape of these flowers before they open up to the morning glory shape I usually see.
I am leaving this at Order level because I think it most closely resembles a fall webwiorm moth but is (a) much smaller than the fall webworm moths I have seen inthe past and (b) not identified as a suggested species by iNaturalist Computer Vision. It also seems much smaller than Viriginian Tiger Moths.
Backyard volunteer, this grows prolifically in the back alley