Mothra - Part II

[amberica]

I promised I'd post pictures of my new moth buddy from Symantec.

This is Mothra looking pretty next to my hand:



And this is Mothra in relation to a US quarter:



Sorry the pictures are not so great. He was up kind of high on the wall, so I had to really reach up with the camera and stuff.

In looking at these again, i'm sure that the pix just don't give the viewer a very good feel for the actual LARGEness of this particular insect, but you'll have to trust me, he's a BEEFY fella!

Comments

[imogen-blue.livejournal.com]

i don't know if you have them there, but we get huge moths here, brown with cream coloured splotches, about the size of a hand. when we were kids we were told they were moon moths & they would carry the souls of the dead to the moon.
of course that doesn't make you feel any better when one of them lands on you. -shudder-

they're not as pretty as your mothra. he looks like one of those stealth planes. bet he's US military issue.

[amberica.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're probably right. Only the US military would come up with something so fancy-looking and utterly useless, and probably WAY too expensive.

I think I've seen those gigantic moths you're talking about - although they were dead and mounted on pins in a museum. But still.... creepy! I don't think I'd like one landing on me! I think Mothra was almost pretty enough for me to want to pet him... he reminded me of a small bird. (I'm weird.)

[amberskyfire.livejournal.com]

Oh so pretty! I just love moths :)