While cooking lunch at the mountains on Saturday, we noticed a pink and yellow moth on the screen door!

I'm not a huge fan of moths, but this thing had such amazingly vivid colors. I remember reading in high school that moths were highly adaptable, but these moths stuck out like a sore thumb in the deciduous forests of North Carolina - is there any evolutionary benefit to being bright pink and yellow in a largely green environment?

A bit of research turned up the name of this moth: the Rosy Maple Moth (Dryocampa rubicunda). Better pictures are here