From yesterday’s walk the biggest moth EVER! Ok the biggest moth in Europe maybe…the giant peacock moth. Difficult to get a clear photo without disturbing it - hand in one photo for scale!
Went out to feed the birds this a.m. & saw something "mounted" to a back porch support beam. Closer inspection revealed it was a very large #moth. My ID app suggests Polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus) with an average wingspan of 6". It was just chilling during the a.m. storms. I hoped it would open up but it just stayed motionless. It was quite dark so the pics aren't the best. Antennae are very cool!
(05/02/24)
❇️ Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #AnnArbor USA 🇺🇸 04/2024 - Title:
🔴 "Steven has always wanted to
catch a moth, but his legs are too
stompy and his arms are too
stumpy so he ends up dancing with
them instead." 🦕
🟡 "Steven wollte schon immer mal
eine Motte fangen, aber seine
Beine sind zu staksig und seine
Arme zu stämmig, also tanzt er
stattdessen mit ihnen. #StreetArt#Art#Chalkart#Artist#SidewalkChalk#Dinosaur#Moth#Chase
I was not prepared for how cute Hummingbird (Sphinx) Moths are.
She was sunning on the door, came back out to her in a deathmatch with a Towhee, so drove the bird off, got her into my hand, got her some heat then into cover, etc.
(she hadn't lost any bits, looked like I got there before injuries)
I don’t know if I’ve seen one of these before, but I think it’s a mint #moth. Its wings look as though they have been embroidered. #allotment#gardening
Here's a cute caterpillar doing its best to disrupt your feed. This is the Shag Carpet Caterpillar Moth (Prothysana sp.). As an adult, it is sorta a drab triangular brown thing, but as a larva, I find it resplendent. Its larval scales are way cooler than the adult ones.
A moth rises like a phoenix from the dead. An #iNaturalist observation of a species thought possibly to be extinct. That is until a tourist on Stewart Island got his uv light out for an evening & observed it. #nz#moth enthusiasts are beside themselves with joy. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202565126
Common Grass-Veneer (Agriphila tristella) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_Grass-Veneer_(Agriphila_tristella)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-07-14_(02).jpg