Found in extreme south Florida as well as the West Indies, the Faithful Beauty is a spectacular black day-flying moth with a stunning red, white, and blue pattern. It looks a lot like a butterfly, but the feathery, knob-less antennae give it away as a moth.

Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park, Key Largo, Monroe Co., FL 6/24/2010.

Florida City, Miami-Dade Co., FL 6/23/2010.

The caterpillars are quite striking, too ‐ red with dark blue spots along the sides.

Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park, Miami-Dade Co., FL 6/23/2010.

The food plants are various species in the dogbane family, the Apocynaceae.

Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park, Miami-Dade Co., FL 6/23/2010.