WHAT THE HECK IS THIS???
We walked outside yesterday morning and found this perched on our doorway. CREEPY! What is it exactly...no idea. But if it is a moth, it is one of the biggest ones I have ever seen. (I saw one like the size of a bird at my sisters house in Grand Junction years ago. It haunted my dreams.)
It stayed there all day until some little lady's that were at my house were found carrying it's torn apart body around.
It's antennas were like feathers. SHIVERS!!!
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I still can't get over how big that thing is. Too bad "someone" ripped it apart, it prob would have been pretty dried and flattened in a scrapbook. I'm sure Jillian got the blame for it but we all know she probably didn't do it. She is practicly an angel!
That is / was a beautiful moth!! :)Your camera captured it's details wonderfully!! :) I love it's fern-like antennas, it's furry legs, and it's beautiful earth-tone colors and designs!! :) To think our Heavenly Father put such detail in even the smallest ( or largest, - depending on how you look at it ), of creatures!! :) There are reminders of His love and magesty everywhere we look, even by our front doors! :)
Unlike the above comments...I say Ewww! It reminds me of the scary thing on the movie Jeepers Creepers.
Okay well that IS creepy, but it's also very pretty. I definitely wouldn't like to see it in my house, but it sure makes for a cool picture! :0)
Thank you for the nightmares I will be having this evening. My husband thanks you as well. LOL!!
THAT is THE creepiest looking insect I have EVER seen! I seriously freaked out when I saw it - eew, eew, eew, eew!!!
So, I HAD to know what that horrible creature is, and did a little research. This is a Cecropia Moth, and it looks like you had a male moth on your hands (the freaky LARGE, "bushy" feather antenna are the dead giveaway).
This is what WIKIPEDIA had to say:
"The cecropia moth is one of the largest moths found in North America. It is a member of the Saturniidae family, or giant silk moths. Females with a wingspan of 130 mm or more have been documented. It is found as far west as the Rocky Mountains and north into the maritime provinces of Canada. The larvae of these moths are most commonly found on Maple trees, but they have been known to feed on Wild Cherry and Birch trees among many others."
Thanks for looking that up Anna! :0)
We used to get similar ones all the time back in Kentucky. The ones we got though were Luna moths. They looked very much the same except that they were sea- foam green. We would often wake up and find several of them on the outside of the barn. (Jacob)
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