found on the sidewalk under a maple in a nearby city. it was beautiful and it was huge! (click on the picture to make it big - it's on toilet tissue, see?) i really wanted to keep it and bring it to school, but a local shopkeeper became so excited when i shared it that i let her have it. her young son collects insects and aspires to become an entomologist. so i took this photo, then sent the moth to him with my email address. i want him to identify it. and i want to know he's as impressed with it as i was.
13 August 2008
a dead moth
found on the sidewalk under a maple in a nearby city. it was beautiful and it was huge! (click on the picture to make it big - it's on toilet tissue, see?) i really wanted to keep it and bring it to school, but a local shopkeeper became so excited when i shared it that i let her have it. her young son collects insects and aspires to become an entomologist. so i took this photo, then sent the moth to him with my email address. i want him to identify it. and i want to know he's as impressed with it as i was.
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i can tell you what it is if you want to hear it from me instead of from a ten year old, but it seems like it would be a lot more fun to let him figure it out. i will tell you this, though- it is the largest moth found in the US. and it's caterpillar looks like this:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5053/2637/640/P2040024.jpg
holy mackerel! now i wish i'd found the caterpillar instead of the moth! yes, tell me what it is. and if it's the biggest moth in the usa, then i'm really sorry i gave it away.
oops! here's the link to sarah's caterpillar! it's more amazing than the moth!
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