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Weird insect landed on my door

  • 10-07-2011 8:37pm
    #1
    LukeFromGalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    This weird creature landed on my door... it's no longer moving and I've never seen anything like him around these parts...

    Hope I've attached it right, I'm a newbie round here!!


Comments

  • #2
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    You've never seen a moth before?


  • #3
    Mabel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Mabel


    Poplar Hawkmoth I think!


  • #4
    LukeFromGalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭LukeFromGalway


    Thanks Mabel, think you solved it!

    Plenty of moths round here, just that I never saw such a large and stout-bodied one before! More like a slug with wings, to me! :o


  • #5
    swifts need our help!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


    now for a funny story or two

    A few years while doing bat work I was asked to go and see someone who had a pair of mating bats on a hanging basket. I phoned the person to make sure they weren't moths and the answer was definitely bats so I thought mother and baby. When I got their it was a pair of poplar hawkmoths.

    I had to go to see someone who had a bat clinging on the door. I phoned to ask a lot of questions before going. The bat was clinging to the glass! I went anyway and it was a poplar hawkmoth


  • #6
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    They're even a bit like bats in flight :)

    While I see plenty reports of Poplar Hawk-moths, for most people seeing one may well be a once in a lifetime experience...and the same can be said of most species of moths, despite their abundance.


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