A few nights ago Camera Girl rushed breathlessly back from her hound walking routine to inform me that a big moth was sitting on a fence. Discovering it to be a Polyphemus Moth and being a big fan of all the Giant Silkworm Moths I captured her and took some photos before releasing her to go about her very important procreational business. Well done Camera Girl, well done.
Beautiful.
Looks like a cousin to a Lunar Moth.
Its colors for camouflage in high mountain desert?
Here in WV there’s this really cool moth looks like a humming bird. Even a kind of beak with a long tongue, they hover and fly flower to flower like its bird analog
It is a cousin! I’m lucky enough to have three and maybe four different species of the Giant Silkworm Moths in my yard. Unfortunately sometimes all I find are pieces of wings after a bat or a dragonfly finishes a meal.