****Update**** What a great year, we have had above average rain fall and Smerinthus cerisyi is loving it, I have now photographed six individuals this year! Usually you see one or none so this is just amazing, they just keep showing up at my door, there is one on each side right now, I think it is because I leave my porch light on all night?
omg. i saw one of these things at school. my area doesn't normally get moths this size so it was like mothzilla for me. lol. i named him mothra but he got away. oh well. he was really pretty.
I was at Disenyland Anaheim tonight [April 18] in the early evneing by the Alice in Wonderland ride and by the tree, just you leave the Cheshire cat and white rabbit to end the ride, were a bunch of white-lined sphinx moths having dinner in the blossoms, and don't thing that said moths went unnoticed by everyone!
no, i didn't cut it open. i caught it and pinned it.... like those museum displays. =.= i felt pretty bad because it was so pretty, but eh... my grade... i'm a loser. =S
Awww moth fur is nice to pet by fingertip! =)
watchensee 2 months ago
****Update**** What a great year, we have had above average rain fall and Smerinthus cerisyi is loving it, I have now photographed six individuals this year! Usually you see one or none so this is just amazing, they just keep showing up at my door, there is one on each side right now, I think it is because I leave my porch light on all night?
OmegaMolecule 1 year ago
it's evil... i'm terrified of moths...
drywall15 1 year ago
beautiful!
satsuki26 1 year ago
omg. i saw one of these things at school. my area doesn't normally get moths this size so it was like mothzilla for me. lol. i named him mothra but he got away. oh well. he was really pretty.
ubergoofball 1 year ago
Very nice. I believe Cerisy's sphinx is endangered, too. Keep plenty of hst and nectaring plants around, help build them up.
Automeris 2 years ago
I was at Disenyland Anaheim tonight [April 18] in the early evneing by the Alice in Wonderland ride and by the tree, just you leave the Cheshire cat and white rabbit to end the ride, were a bunch of white-lined sphinx moths having dinner in the blossoms, and don't thing that said moths went unnoticed by everyone!
SteveCarras 2 years ago
Cute!!
Thargh 3 years ago
I saw on of those once they're HUGE really beautiful at first I thought it was a bat.
possum2u 4 years ago
Beautiful, beautiful. . Sphinx Moths are my all time favorite of the Lepidopterans.
6327isc 4 years ago
it's so pretty! i think your specimen was a girl. :) i've only seen one in my life... and i used it for my insect project for biology...
misosoup12 4 years ago
So you disected it? Aw heck! !!!!
Chordwayze 4 years ago
I would never do that this creature was not harmed in any way.the poster misosoup12 was stating there own experience with species.
OmegaMolecule 4 years ago
Nor I. I was replying to misosoup12
Chordwayze 4 years ago
no, i didn't cut it open. i caught it and pinned it.... like those museum displays. =.= i felt pretty bad because it was so pretty, but eh... my grade... i'm a loser. =S
misosoup12 3 years ago
Said "misosoup12":
"it's so pretty! i think your specimen was a girl. :)"
Going by the size, it probaly is. Females are often times larger than males (just like bhumans!).
SteveCarras 3 years ago
lol.
...but the moths a male going on the small curved abdomen.
andy765gtr 3 years ago