This is a moth I found at work last summer on the back of a Cub Cadet lawn tractor crate. That is my hand next to it for size reference. Taken with the camera on a PDA. At lunch, I set it down where nobody would bother it and then went home and grabbed my Canon for some closer clearer shots, but it had flown away by then. :-(
posted by Grover at 12/19/2004 11:24:00 AM
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Right, well unless I'm much mistaken, that's a Robin (or Cecropia) Moth (Hyalophora cecropia - Saturniidae family). Saturniidae moths (often referred to as emperor) are a large family, including the biggest moths in the world, such as the atlas moth, and the large moon moths, and silkmoths.
Apologies for the big head description, my mum is a long-term member of the Butterfly/Moth Conservation Group in the UK. So I'm quite used to identifying them. :)
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/moths/usa/998.htm
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