This big and beautiful polyphemus moth was fluttering around the parking lot at work on Friday. Of course I had to take his portrait. More detailed shots of this lovely fellow are below.
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Big and beautiful
Beautiful moth! Great find and awesome shot!
Thanks. It was a lucky shot. Just happened to be walking across the parking lot to another building and there he was. Ran back in for the camera and the rest is pixels! 🙂 Glad to see you back.
Thanks! Good to be back and learning from all you great photographers. I never leave from perusing these blogs without coming away with a new idea or technique to use myself in the future. Nice to see you’re still clicking away! Have a great weekend.. or at least what’s left of it. 🙂
You too!
A true beauty!
Fascinating creatures — especially when you see the detail of all the wing scales and how the color comes about. So beautiful. Thanks once again for stopping by!
I do enjoy all your fabulous finds 🙂
Thanks again!
We must have these here. I found a dead one in our driveway last week. It looked exactly like this guy. I felt so bad for him, and didn’t know what had happened. It was said, because he was just so beautiful!
They appear to be quite widespread! This site: http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Polyphemus-Moth lists a huge range for these beauties. They’re quite clever in color too — when their wings are folded, they are bland and look like an old leaf.
They do. And that’s exactly what I thought it was until I got closer. Thank you for the site link!
Taking all these photos and blogging, one learns so much about the photo subjects. This has been a real education for me about all the wild things around us here. What a beautiful world!
What an amazing creature in nature!
Great Shots!!!!
What were you shooting with?
Sorry for the delayed response! This was taken by a Sony DSC-H10 purchased from eBay for $80. LOVE this camera.
Looks like you got a great deal.