Big Moth

[RockMonkey]

So, anyone know anything about moths? My two-year old showed me this one on a pot in our front yard. Can you identify it?

 

[RockMonkey]

I poked it to see it it was alive and it spread it's wings a bit.

 

[RockMonkey]

I just measured it at five inches from wing tip to wing tip after pissing it off.

 

[Vector OffRoad]

We always called them Hawk Moths.http://waynesword.palomar.edu/manduca2.htm

 

[RockMonkey]

Yup, that's it! It sounds like they suck flower pollen at night, so it'll probably be gone in the morning. If it spread it's wings fully (like the one pictured on that site) I bet it would be 6 inches across or more.

 

[Spork]

Haven't seen one like that for years. Used to get them at the restaurant I worked at. They liked the bug zapper but were too big to fit...

 

[RockMonkey]

Reading up a bit, it sounds like they are a real pest if you're trying to grow tomatoes. Should I kill it if it's still there tomorrow?

 

[Paul R]

Reading up a bit, it sounds like they are a real pest if you're trying to grow tomatoes. Should I kill it if it's still there tomorrow?

I guess that depends if you are growing tomatoes

 

[Herzog]

Haven't seen one like that for years. Used to get them at the restaurant I worked at. They liked the bug zapper but were too big to fit...

The freaking thing would burn down your building if it got into a zapper.

 

[jesse]

so is that penny glued on there?

 

[gripguru]

We used to see the tomoto worms in our tomatoes, but we would always catch them in a jar and wait for the cocoon. Big suckers, never realized they had that anteather-long tongue. Thier flapping sounds like a bat when they are in a shed with a little lightbulb trying to fly around.

 

[RockMonkey]

so is that penny glued on there?

Yes, for scale. Double sided tape. Carry it everywhere with me...

 

[jdub]

Nutts! Walked the dog last night and a baby tarantula was out for a walk too.

 

[Zombie]

Nature is coming back... with a vengance. I saw a garter snake our on a walk with my five year old near my parents house a while back... hadn't seen one in that area for YEARS.
Then the angry spider I engountered at Mill Hollow, now the attack of the killer moth?

Anbody remember that movie where the frogs and moths and stuff kill all those people in an everglades resort?

 

[Amy]

Its so furry....eww...haha! Really cool though.

 

[Badcop]

Holly Crap I just saw one of those in the park city area, but the one that was showed to me was really kind of pretty, almost like a huge fat arsed butterfly..

The lady that had it in a box was telling me there all over the park city area.

Heres the other big one around: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_moth