Ranchman's Tiger Moth
Platyprepia virginalis
- ![Ranchman's Tiger Moth (Platyprepia virginalis)](virginalis/virginalis04-24-2022.jpg)
Ranchman's tiger moth as seen at left along the west bank of the John Day River about one and one-half miles downstream of the Cottonwood Canyon State Park campground.........April 6, 2015. The photo at right shows the larva of Racnman's tiger moth munching on the inflorescence of a tarweed (Amsinckia sp.) along the west bank of the John Day River about one miles upstream of the Hardstone Trail trailhead, Cottonwood Canyon State Park.....April 24, 2022.
![Ranchman's Tiger Moth (Platyprepia virginalis)](virginalis/RanchersMoth05-20-2017.jpg)
Ranchman's tiger moth as seen munching upon silvery lupine (Lupinus argenteus var. argenteus) along the Rimrock Springs Trail #850, Crooked River National Grasslands.........May 20, 2017.
Paul Slichter