BrownTail Moth (19794095708)

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Description: I noticed several of these moths on the window where they seemed to stay day and night. The window is double paned accounting for the multiple reflections. I thought they were rather cute with their fuzzy heads. Since then I have learned that the larvae (caterpillar) form of this moth feasts on a large number of tree leaves and has small hair structures that can and do imbed in the skin and cause a rash. I have had a couple of rashes in the last month. Lots of itching. It may be this critter. It seems different from poison ivy. The brown-tail (Euproctis chrysorrhoea) is a moth of the family Lymantriidae. It is distributed throughout Europe. It is found in North America only on the coast of Maine and Cape Cod where it is considered an invasive species that arrived in the U.S. in the 1890s on nursery stock coming from Europe. [Wikipedia]. Date: 20 July 2015, 12:00. Source: BrownTail Moth. Author: Paul VanDerWerf from Brunswick, Maine, USA.