Huge Promethea silkmoth
Category Silk Moth
I just came home from watching Wall-e (so so movie) this evening to find this huge moth sitting on the kitchen window.
I had no idea what kind it was so took a picture in case it flew off. Turns out it's a Promethea silkmoth, and looking at this website, no one has reported seeing one in my county.
I took the picture with the light being provided by an outside light and using an 8 second exposure on the camera.
The thing is big, it's wingspan is a good 3 inches. This is the second huge moth I have seen in about two weeks, a couple of weeks ago I thought there was a bird flying into the window, it ended up being a huge Luna moth.
I just came home from watching Wall-e (so so movie) this evening to find this huge moth sitting on the kitchen window.
I had no idea what kind it was so took a picture in case it flew off. Turns out it's a Promethea silkmoth, and looking at this website, no one has reported seeing one in my county.
I took the picture with the light being provided by an outside light and using an 8 second exposure on the camera.
The thing is big, it's wingspan is a good 3 inches. This is the second huge moth I have seen in about two weeks, a couple of weeks ago I thought there was a bird flying into the window, it ended up being a huge Luna moth.
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