Friday, 6 May 2011

Big moth

How big? This big!

3 comments:

  1. How beautiful. Can you identify it?

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  2. Saturnia Pyri the European Emperor. It is a silk moth and related to the British Emperor Moth (saturnia pavonia). If you have a female and put it in a net cage it will attract males. And believe it or not I wrote all that without looking anything up - sad, but true.

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  3. Wow, cool! As pretty as a butterfly.

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