NOW that's a BIG moth!

[sandbender]

This from an Australian web site...

"Measuring 26cm wing tip-to-wing tip, this Hercules moth stopped in at Sue and Iain Ralston’s home near Port Douglas, north of Cairns, for two days, fascinating their nature loving sons Sam and Mitch."


http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2008/05/16/3881_local-news.html

 

[Pignut]

you are not wrong!

 

[philaw]

Do you think it flies around at night eating bats?

 

[ANDYRAF]

What a shame it only lives for ten days, but then think of the size of the moth lavae that would be eating you clothes.

 

[firecrest]

Hercules moth? I thought they were called Atlas moth!

 

[Matt Weir]

Bloody Aussies with their...

That's not a [insert item here]! ......This is a [insert item here]!



Cool moth. I've always had a thing for moths. They are kind of other worldly.

 

[webbie]

yup that looks other world alright

i would sh!t bricks if it got into my tent al tell u that much

 

[firecrest]

I saw one of these in Honduras. I thought it was bat until it landed. I declared it the biggest moth in the whole world! Ok I now change that to second biggest moth, but its still damn big.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...es?q=white+witch+moth&ndsp=20&um=1&hl=en&sa=N