I almost stepped on this today.
I was walking along not following my own advice about looking up and at people when I noticed it. I thought early fall had begun and it was a crumbled up leaf from a tree.
Then I noticed the symmetry.
What is it?
I poked it with a stick to see if it was dead and it wasn’t…the legs were moving a bit. I tried to move it off the middle of the sidewalk thinking someone might step on it but it was hard…I didn’t want to damage its wings.
I managed to move it to the side and then continued on. It wasn’t there any more on the return.
Strange things going on around here…strange bugs entering my life.
I thought it was a leaf too.
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What a find! Must have just hatched. My daughter found a huge green caterpillar a few weeks ago and we have it indoors now hoping to witness the metamorphosis. It is a rustic Sphinx. Had a pointy horn and everything.
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At first I thought it was a leaf too.
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I know, right?
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Until I put my readers on I thought it was a bat lol
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Very pretty. I’m glad you didn’t step on it.
-M
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Me too. 🙂
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Pandora Sphinx Moth. I thought it looked like a Hummingbird moth, but the wings were wrong. I tripped across the sphinx when looking those up and found one that looked just like this. They are really pretty!
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Wow, that’s interesting. I wonder why it was lying on the sidewalk…
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Wonder if because it didn’t really want to move if it was newly hatched(do they actually hatch?) and still drying its wings or something along those lines? Or it was just sun bathing.
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It looked like it might be injured. What an odd place to just sit there…
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Perfect camouflage!
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It’s beautiful.
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🙂
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Looks like a moth of some kind
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That’s what I thought. Was bigger though, almost as big as a monarch.
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Don’t you watch old Godzilla movies? That is the offspring of Mothra, the arch rival of The big Lizard.
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😂😂😂
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