Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Huge monster moth sited in my computer area on Sunday evening


Not kidding - that sucker looked like about the size of a small bat and even looked like one sort of but prettier and not trying to fly at everything - was trying to escape. I caught it and released it outside my door and hope it flew away where it belonged. I did a semi search while chatting with Janelle and came up with this pic that looks similar to what I had in my living/computer area Sunday night - there are no measurements on this moth so can't really tell if this is something close to what I actualy saw. I believe his wing span if he were to spread out flat was approximately the span of my hand from middle fingertip to butt of palm - probably around 6-7 inches in width - See what you all think - E :)

6 comments:

Cas said...

Very pretty, but EEEEEEWWWWWWW!

elysabeth said...

Cas, funny - it was scary more than ewwwwwy - lol - It flitted around here until I picked up a bag and jut held his wings and could get him outside - I hope he flew away where he needed to be - because he was too pretty to kill - and that would have been a huge mess - if he got squashed - lol - I'm not sure that really is what kind of moth he was but he looked similar to that - E :)

Cidermaker said...

Remember what I said about things coming through from the Discworld!!
lol

Ghost Girl (aka, Mary Ann) said...

Wow! That's so cool! Moths and butterflies don't freak me out, but anything that crawls does--spiders (eww, big phobia there!), or centipedes, or other crawly bugs. Blak!

Maybe your little friend was planting some inspiration on your hard drive!

LindaBudz said...

I am in awe that you touched it. Gah!

Cidermaker said...

Perhaps it was the Fractal Butterfly ::)