Cecropia moth

Bud1880

Never heard of these until I came across this giant moth hanging in my spruce tree yesterday. His wingspan measured a tad over 5 inches. These aren't exactly macros but I got close on one shot.

Very colorful body on this thing.









Thanks for lookin',

Bud

Mark Edell

very cool! I like the detail.

Lord Vetinari

Wonderful find and capture
Brian V.

Bud1880

Thank you Mark and Brian for looking in and commenting. It was an interesting find for me. Never knew we had such colorful and large moths.

Bud

Corehead

Yeah, I had a coccoon of one once in Milwaukee, when I was a kidlet.

It emerged in spring.

Took to the air.

A sparrow got it not 10 seconds later.

Shoulda stayed in its coccoon, ayy?

GOLDENORFE

loverly shots of a beautifull Robin moth. i have bred these beauties:D
phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

Skippy

Bud1880 wrote:

Never heard of these until I came across this giant moth hanging in my spruce tree yesterday. His wingspan measured a tad over 5 inches. These aren't exactly macros but I got close on one shot.

Very colorful body on this thing.

Thanks for lookin',

Bud

What a beautiful moth Bud.

That's an excellent shot of the under body, it's a fluffy little fella.

Geezzz I'd like to see the size of the caterpillar it was before the morph.

Good fine Bud .... Skippy
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