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Published: 2009-08-12 14:34:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 917; Favourites: 66; Downloads: 39
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Well, I don't know what season this moth is partial to, but that's the photo I placed it on.Related content
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Lovely. The colors are wonderful and the bug is beautiful. Very nice
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I think it's a Cecropia Moth, but I could be wrong. I caught one once, and as I held it by its wings, it PEED....scared me silly.
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Apparently, it's an atlas moth, but either way, it's cool!
lol A moth peed on you?
Poor thing was probably scared pissless!
Be careful holding them by the wings, though. If too much of their powder rubs off, they'll die.
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It never peed ON me, luckily, I had it by the wings.
I only grabbed it by the wings to catch it, and I was young, and wanted a "pet".
I couldn't have pets, because of allergies, so I used to catch stuff...snakes frogs toads insects...
I no longer desire to imprison wildlife, only to capture it on camera.
Atlas Moths must be in the same family as Cecropia's.
I thought it was a bit different looking.
Cecropias have an eye on the wing.
PS, it just about scared ME pissless.
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Ah, okay! Lucky you. I had a garter snake squirt on me once!
Oh, you were a kid; that's all right then. I used to catch bumblebees!
My sentiments exactly with capturing wildlife on camera, although I do raise butterflies, mind you, I release them as soon as their wings uncrumple from the pupa. I inadvertently raised a wasp once though.
LOL That presents a very funny image to my mind.
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I found a cecropia catterpillar once, put it in a jar, and it weaved it's thing.
Instead of a moth, though, the only thing that emerged was flies...dozens of them.
I figure the Cecropia had already been attacked by them before it fell from the tree I found it under...gross.
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Yup! I figure that's happened to one of my caterpillars because it was clearly a black swallowtail caterpillar in its fifth instar when I found it. I fed it, it ate, it became a pupa, but the pupa was brown instead of green like the others. The other four became black swallowtail butterflies, but the brown one didn't open. I kept it through the winter just in case this one was meant to winter over. And then, just two weeks ago I found a wasp in my room, and it is WAY too early for the wasps to come out, let alone getting stuck in a dorm room on the fourth floor! Well, I caught it and released it, and then two days later, I noticed a gaping hole in the remaining pupa...I guess you have to get them early, like I did with the other four who were in their first instars when I found them, or the parasites beat you to it.
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Ah well....that's nature, we all have to eat.
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Oooohh I love it! The color, the shape and the pattern of the wings! Thanks for sharing
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An atlas moth actually. 
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I've seen it on google..
It's a giant! 
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Atlas moth? Good to know. Thanks! Yes they are.
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Yeah I'm pretty sure, saw two in a butterfly farm once.
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Well, this one is two shots since the moth was dead in a display case, but thanks!
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