Billllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

[Bengoodall]

...Wassat.....?

Found on drive way about ten minutes ago, pictures taken, and moth captured for release some where not road or hunting beast (my cats) related.

Nice big old tree in an old garden.

 

[mud duck]

Owl face moth?

 

[Sukigod]

Looks like a cecropia? moth. Pretty big one eh? We get\'em around here (well , a bit further north, about the size of medium sized birds!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecropia_moth

 

[Naukhel]

Does anyone else see a hat wearing bearded pirate on its wings?

 

[Roger Bunting]

I think it\'s a Great Peacock moth.

http://tpittaway.tripod.com/silk/s_pyr.htm

 

[Bengoodall]

Neither of those look right, the first one has more butterfly shaped wings, the second ones closer, maybe a related species, but the one I found doesnt have two pairs of eyes, only one, and the other lines are wrong.

 

[Roger Bunting]

The second pair of \"eyes\" would be underneath the top wings.

Here\'s another pic of a Great Peacock moth.

 

[Godlikebuthumble]

Yep, looks about right. That\'s settled then! And all without Bill! Go us! Exclamation mark!

 

[Bill]

Bah...

 

[Roger Bunting]

You may still need to confirm my conclusion, Bill. I don\'t think Bengoodall has faith in me. :no:

 

[DaN]

@Naukhel...

Now you come to mention it ... lol

 

[Naukhel]

@DaN: I was looking at it the other way, actually, with the hat toward the moth\'s
head. I\'m on from work, though, and can\'t do that nifty arrows and text addition
to the picture to show you how I mean.

 

[Arma]

Naukhel:

I see the damn pirate! HUGE mustache and holding his hands up saying like \"omg I give up! Don\'t make me walk the plank! GAaaaah!\"

*ahem*

 

[Toilet Beard]

Yeeeaarrrr! That be the most piratelike moth I ever did see.

 

[MPJ]

Yeah, I saw the pirate from the opposite direction too. :drunk: