Calling "DOG" he dog that is :)
...Dale, found this last night at dark thirty, thought it was a leaf at first...if anyone knows what it is, be you! [^]
Probably almost a 4" wingspan and close to 3" from head to tail.
I noticed the bottom tips of it's wings/tail were a little "whithered" looking...maybe old and dieing or had emerged from it's caccoon a short time before? Colors were bright and vivid and looked healthy other than the tips of it's wings/tail.
Anyway, gone today! Some type of moth, but not being the "bug man" you are,....I have know idea what type...so, WTH is it? Thanks dog!...[:D]
Probably almost a 4" wingspan and close to 3" from head to tail.
I noticed the bottom tips of it's wings/tail were a little "whithered" looking...maybe old and dieing or had emerged from it's caccoon a short time before? Colors were bright and vivid and looked healthy other than the tips of it's wings/tail.
Anyway, gone today! Some type of moth, but not being the "bug man" you are,....I have know idea what type...so, WTH is it? Thanks dog!...[:D]
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what no pic. your slipping Richard [}:)][:D] 0 -
I'm guessing a lunar moth...http://www.entomon.net/lunar-moth-wings-actius-luna.htm
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sounds like a moth 0 -
No photo to help me out? Describe wing colors and shape, ie, do the wings sweep back like a delta jet or stand straight out to the side or sweep a little forward? Eye spots on the wings? One of the larger Noctuid (owlet) moths in our region is the Black Witch moth, hang on I will look for a link to a pic.
OK here you go: http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabast/witch.html
Is that it? They are occasionals all over the country, but are really tropicals that make long trips by storm. They are almost always unrecognized when the show up. There are also several saturnid (silk worm) moths in the area, as well as a number of Sphingids (Sphinx moths). Let me dig up the Northern Prairie site, back in a minute.
Start here Colt: http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/map?ds=44&_dcs=1
That will put you into the Texas lepidoptera and you can look at the individual species in the families Noctuidae, Saturnidae and Sphingidae. That should locate it for you. If you have a pic, post it and I will check in tonight.0 -
We used to get some huge lime greens ones up around the lead smelter, but that environment seemed to make alot of things huge. These things would get like 10in. across. 0 -
Spryor that would be the luna moth, one of the saturnids, the silk worm moths. Here is a photo:
http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1insects/luna.html0 -
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
Spryor that would be the luna moth, one of the saturnids, the silk worm moths. Here is a photo:
http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1insects/luna.html
Yep, that kinda looks like it, but these would get twice that size..i guess because of something used in the smelting process, as all bugs, or game for that matter were much larger than usual.0 -
..DUH!!! $#@!$%^% Heres a pic.... 0 -
sure looks like a luna or lunar moth..just emerging from cacoon stage...Loko[:D] 0 -
Yep it is a luna moth, the damage to the hind wing tails probably occured when it eclosed (emerged from its cacoon) and the wings were wet and shrunken. The moths pump hemolymph into the wings to inflate them to full size before they dry and harden. Damage can easily occur at that time, and sometimes they start to dry before that are fully inflated, if the moth happens to be in the sun or if the humidity is very low. Beautiful things that live as moths only long enough to mate and lay eggs, probably two weeks or less. 0
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