Moth of Mystery
☆ August 10, 2010
an
enormous
moth
story
coming
soon!
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☆ August 10, 2010
an
enormous
moth
story
coming
soon!
36 Responses to “Moth of Mystery”
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August 10th, 2010 @ 11:24 pm
All I could think of…………’
is the Mothman chronicles?! wow
August 10th, 2010 @ 11:40 pm
Holy moth-mackerel, Batman! That moth is HUGE. It’s quite beautiful, too.
August 10th, 2010 @ 11:44 pm
From a sideways glance I see a rabbit face with antennae. Maybe it’s just me…
August 11th, 2010 @ 12:23 am
wow – i thought that was a messed up bat – do you have bats there? I dont think so, but not a bat expert. Oh yeah, that’s what google is for :) It late…. very late….
August 11th, 2010 @ 4:50 am
Please tell us the actual size of that moth! It can’t be as big as it looks!
Shannon – I see it.
August 11th, 2010 @ 5:18 am
Shannon, I see it too looks like a rabbit face. How big was the moth looks “gynormous.”
August 11th, 2010 @ 6:45 am
It looks like a pretty bat!!! HUUUUUGE!
August 11th, 2010 @ 7:42 am
Reminds me of a moth I “met” many years ago when
working at a summer camp. It was gorgeous, huge (with wings spread, much bigger than my hand) and banging
on the cabin door , attracted by our light.
Exceptional photo.
August 11th, 2010 @ 8:07 am
I can’t wait to see the pattern on it’s wings. Up here in Canada, we have a six incher that has two “eyes” and the wings are outlined with what looks like snakes.Great for keeping the birds away.Isn’t nature incredible!!!
August 11th, 2010 @ 8:30 am
“when peace was reached between the moths and the flying squirrels, they were finally able to live together. later generations, forgetting the animosity of their parents, even started to intermarry…”
sorry, couldn’t help it. it looks like it has fur, and a FACE. crazy.
August 11th, 2010 @ 8:55 am
Great Ash Sphinx Moth!
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=3385
http://www.catnapin.com/Critters/Butterfly/xxMothSphinx.htm
http://www.californiagardens.com/plant_pages/great_ash_sphinx.htm
http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/schersis.htm
Beautiful. :)
August 11th, 2010 @ 8:57 am
He/she is beautiful and I forgive them for ruining my cashmere sweaters.
August 11th, 2010 @ 9:09 am
Whoa that’s awesome!
August 11th, 2010 @ 9:14 am
thats an AMAZING photo, such detail. even though most people don’t care for them too much, they’re actually pretty fascinating creatures.
I’ve been trying to teach the little ones around here an easy way to distinguish between butterflies and moths, mostly being the way that they fold their wings during rest (butterflies to tend to carry them tented together above their body and moths folded out to the side like a fighter plane). Which makes me intrigued about your mystery moth, is it a special moth or another type of creature? (ANYONE KNOW?)
August 11th, 2010 @ 9:33 am
E ~ the story of this moth, which I will share when I have a spare sec, will explain it! You’ll LOVE it!
August 11th, 2010 @ 10:02 am
It’s beautiful – and it does have a bunny face! Looking forward to the story.
August 11th, 2010 @ 10:05 am
I couldn’t tell if the story is about an enormous moth, or if it’s an enormous story about a moth. Your teaser was ambiguous! :P
Your beautiful pic suggests it’s an enormous moth, but here’s hoping the story is also enormous. I love reading your narratives!
August 11th, 2010 @ 11:18 am
Sandy, you are right it’s a rabbit with wings, and lots of legs.
Sounds like one of those Hollywood scary movie in the 50’….
Gigantic rabbit moth attacks the earth, duck and cover fast !!!!
She looks so soooooft…..
August 11th, 2010 @ 12:05 pm
Shreve, your posts NEVER disappoint! When you say you have a story coming, I know it’ll be a good one.
I have a soft spot for moths, especially Saturniid moths- AKA, the giant ones that put full sized birds to shame. Just a few days ago, I took in a giant Imperial Moth that had been disoriented by a passing tropical depression. I was only planning to snap a few quick photos before I released him, but I ended up with around 50!
August 11th, 2010 @ 12:33 pm
I think you should phone an entomologist straight away…you may have a new species there. That is most beautiful, and I too see rabbit and holy smokes those look like little rabbit feet. When your horse blankets have holes the size of volleyballs you’ll know why.
August 11th, 2010 @ 1:19 pm
Sphinx moth for sure, possibly ‘waved’. They don’t eat blankets and sweaters. Their caterpillars may eat tomatoes.
But given that, I’d donate a tomato plant to grow one of those! Food for the eye.
August 11th, 2010 @ 1:41 pm
Wow, it is a bunny moth Shannon! I see it too! That is one exotic looking critter . . .can’t wait to hear the whole story!
August 11th, 2010 @ 1:43 pm
Amazing!
August 11th, 2010 @ 3:17 pm
I see a chinchilla. I names it chillamoth! I loves me some moth & moth mystery stories!!!! At a friend’s cottage recently a few hours north of Toronto, Ontario, I met a beautiful luna moth (google it, peeps – you won’t be disappointed) – huge, glow-in-the-dark-green. Moths are awesome.
August 11th, 2010 @ 3:59 pm
Lunar Moth? Moth big enough to cover the moon?
August 11th, 2010 @ 9:04 pm
What a beautiful insect. It may be a Black Witch moth. We found one on the wall of our school a couple of years ago. They are sometimes mistaken for bats. I’m not sure if they migrate into Wyoming though.
August 12th, 2010 @ 7:35 am
Channelling Elnora Comstock (Girl of the Limberlost)…
Until I read that book, I didn’t know how large moths can get (except the Luna). They really can be the size of small birds and many are more colorful than we realize.
August 12th, 2010 @ 8:14 am
Ohhhhhhhhhhh BB/VA. I read that book when I was 13 years old, that’s 50 years ago, and I still call it one of my favorite series. Must find copies for my grandkids! Thanks for the reminder.
August 12th, 2010 @ 8:53 am
It’s… it’s… it’s Bunnicula!!!!
August 12th, 2010 @ 9:00 am
Hope you have a picture with the wings open. I bet it was stunning
August 12th, 2010 @ 11:34 am
incredible!!!! looks like a moth/chinchilla cross…can’t wait for the story!!! ;)
August 12th, 2010 @ 2:50 pm
Fascinating photo, and I can also see the rabbit head in profile, with the moth’s antennae looking like the rabbit’s ears, drooping over its back. Ain’t “matrixing” things out of other things fun?
Saw a story on the TV news about how bats have a plague called “whitenose” that is killing them off. First the bees start dying, then the bats– what’s next? Scary to think about the future of agriculture, since bees pollinate crops, and bats eat the bugs that would devour those crops.
August 12th, 2010 @ 11:10 pm
Moths seem to have such gorgeous deep eyes!
I LOVE the photo of Eli and Charlie today…Pals in Pastel!
August 13th, 2010 @ 10:46 am
in miami, i once saw an all black moth hanging near our porch light that was bigger than my hand. Pretty amazing
August 13th, 2010 @ 5:48 pm
What a perfect creature.
August 17th, 2010 @ 9:55 pm
I have observed, when I had vegetable gardens, that when I had an abundance of wasp nests I did not have horn worms on my tomatoes! I believe that these were the wasps that made mud nests, others make paper nests. Have others made this observation?