Bugs - Not for the Squeamish
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Calling beanstew...is this a moth? It's HUGE but it's not like any butterfly I've ever seen. It has a big furry body. I love it! 
FortyTwo
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That looks like a Polyphemus Moth! I've seen one personally, they're pretty large when you're used to the usual small ones.
FortyTwo
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Thanks FortyTwo! Haha...I guess I was being a little dramatic when I said huge, but it was definitely the size of a monarch or swallowtail which is what surprised me for a moth.
Yeah, moths are less wispy and more... I don't know... solid I guess, would be a good way to describe it. Butterflies are almost ethereal, more dainty. When a gigantic moth shows up, it's like HI I'M A MOTH and it's kind-of like having a winged mouse drop by for a visit.
beanstew
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I think FortyTwo identified your moth. I think it's definitely one of the native giant silkworm moths- maybe a Cecropia if not a Polyphemus? (I get those two mixed up sometimes if I haven't looked at a picture lately, but if I remember right, a Cecropia is more reddish or orange than your moth there).Calling beanstew...is this a moth? It's HUGE but it's not like any butterfly I've ever seen. It has a big furry body. I love it!
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(Mothra is my all-time favorite monster)
beanstew
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I agree that FortyTwo is probably correct with the identification. We don't have any moths that big here.
Here's a pretty Mother of Pearl moth I found just now.
Here's a pretty Mother of Pearl moth I found just now.
^^^ With a snail getting into the picture... or maybe s/he was trying to get OUT of the pic and just couldn't move fast enough?
Love the moth pictures.
Love the moth pictures.
FortyTwo
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Cecropia are pretty much the same size and occasionally the same coloration, but the markings on their wings are different. Still pretty all the same.
Mothra is my favorite too by the way, even if I don't know what her little people are talking about half the time and let's be honest they did a terrible job with the green screens in Godzilla vs. Mothra, like if they had just done whatever they did with Battra it would have been fine but that doesn't excuse the existence of the Cosmos' storyline anyway!
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beanstew
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My car seems to have been colonised.
Also, my car could probably do with a clean.
Also, my car could probably do with a clean.
yakherder
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