Monday, August 11, 2008

What flew in.



For scale, I include my hand, which is only slightly closer to the camera than the moth is. This was about 5-6" across, from wingtip to wingtip. I don't know if it's a small atlas moth or what. (I won't take the time to look it up now, as I have a paper to write that I've studiously been avoiding. If anyone knows, though....)

2 comments:

Gawdess said...

glorious and huge and I have NEVER seen anything like that in the great white north where I live!
so cool

Ampersand said...

wow. BIG moth. amazing patterns.