What is this thing?

Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

Apart from a large moth obviosuly. I think I may have posted it 2 years ago when I took a pic of it on my window sill but no one has answered me anywhere. I just get comments on my pic on bebo of "what the hell is that?"
I sent it off to the moth and butterfly society and they where hapy to tell me what it was in my previous email before I attached a photo and then they ignored me and didnt answer.
Its real , it flew away like a helecopter. I have more pics on the other pc also .

I have seen peoples so called pics of mamoth moths and they are all a lot smaller than this monster.
So brains of BCF what is it?

fat moth?beast? alien? lol
I wish it would visit me again.
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Shaun · Likes 'em bent Joined: 17 May 2003 Karma :

It's the devil.

hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Mothraaaaaa!

Send another query to the moth and butterfly society, this time with the pic in it from the start.

But send it from another email address, making out you're somebody else.

They'll remember the query you sent and go 'Oooo, fuck, that's two of them we've heard of recently. Maybe there's gonna be an invasion of them from some foreign country.'

Laughing

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Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

Maybe they thought i was muckiing about and had made the thing. Will have to google them again for their site. No one knows what it is, and thats weird. Confused

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Feasty · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Karma :

It's a '98 R1 come back from the dead in another life form... Twisted Evil

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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

I'd guess that it has escaped from some kind of zoo or something rather than it being indigenous to the UK.
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Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

Someone told me it came down from a mountain Neutral

I still cant find one on google image that size. We have a sanctuary here but its miles from where I am and they have nothing like that. Next zoo is Belfast and its also a fair bit away. Emailed some guy from NI butterly and moth place with the pic. See what they say. I must hunt out the rest the pics it has intersting zip zag patterns on its back.
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chris-red · Have you considered a TDM? Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Karma :

Thats the fucker that ate my fingers.
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Chills · Scooby Slapper Joined: 03 Feb 2002 Karma :

Looks like a Ruby Tiger moth.

Have got one somewhere but doesn't look at pretty as yours.
(Mine's dead with a pin in it!) Wink

Nice moth and relatively common in the UK.

Chris ~ Smile

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pa_broon74 · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Karma :

After consulting my database of moth related facts, I think I can say it looks to be an Elephant Hawk Moth.

Would anyone like to see my bark rubbings?

Wink

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Chills · Scooby Slapper Joined: 03 Feb 2002 Karma :

Yeah thats the one... sorry I meant the Elephant Hawk Moth...
Honest! Wink

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pa_broon74 · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Karma :

https://www.homepages.mcb.net/wormwell/Elephant%20Hawkmoth140504.htm
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Didn't catch anything.

Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

Cool I know its name now, So its not some weird thing that landed here its common. I havnt seen one since but that elephant hawk moth looks exactly like it, well mines more pretty than that pic lol

case solved Karma cookies awarded Very Happy

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Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

And to back pa-broon up there I already got an answer back from the moth people here.

pa_broon74 · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Karma :

Excited?

Be afraid, very afraid. The Elephant Hawk Moth is so called because it can morph into either a hawk or an elephant at will. Fairly innocuous you might think until it morph's into an elephant above you as you sleep!

Ok ok. I made that up... Rolling Eyes

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Didn't catch anything.

Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

I have little to do no adays Embarassed

I should not be excited I didnt discover a new breed of moth and have it named after me Crying or Very sad

My moth is still prettier! Evil or Very Mad

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LankyPaddy · Scooby Slapper Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Karma :

The Elephant Hawk Moth... 1/2 Elephant, 1/2 Hawk, 1/2 Moth... and 100% all woman...
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Pedd · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Karma :

these big moths must be feeding an mutant moth balls or summat, one here form my backyard

https://www.bikechatforums.com/files/megamoth.jpg

Icey · World Chat Champion Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Karma :

The bats that visit my garden like them as snacks.

Moths freak me out - horrible things.
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Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

Is anyone else scared of butterflys and moths? I am the only one I know that can hold one of them and like them. More butterflys though as they are prettier. But you should see my mate freak when a moth gets in the house Laughing

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Weedy · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Karma :

About three days ago, there was a moth that looked identical to dragonfly's one on my garage door, but it was about a foot wide! Shocked

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hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Anita's frit of them, daft mare, frit of teensy little moths, although I think she's okay with butterflies. When she was little and we were living in NZ, I remember a monarch butterfly chrysalis opening out in her hand. Although she was only 9 at the time, so she probably wouldn't let that happen now Laughing

I'm not really afraid of them: moths mostly are ugly. I can appreciate that the ones on here are interesting and 'attractive' moths, compared to those little ones that flit about ... but they're still fookin ugly. Mind you ... moths THAT big, I'd be well frit of the buggers getting tangled up in my hair, brrrrr.

But I like butterflies ... although I wouldn't really bother to pick one up.
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Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

what is that glittery stuff that comes off them? I noticed what was like shimmer eye shadow when I held them.
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hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Pixie dust
Wink

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Frost · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 May 2004 Karma :

We caught one last summer. We named it Mothzilla. It died a tragic firey accidental death Sad