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trouttime
08-19-2006, 11:06 AM
Hey All,
I found this moth sitting on my neighbors work van last night. It looks like a little stealth fighter with camo and all. If it landed on my camo hat you would never know it was there!! This is by far the coolest moth I have ever seen, can anyone help me identify it. I have been searching on-line all morning and cannot find anything even close. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
These two pictures were taken late last night so it looks almost black and white, I will try to get a day shot so you can truly appreciate the colorings, thanks!!

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/539/medium/DSCN0207.JPG

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/539/medium/DSCN0208.JPG



trouttime
08-19-2006, 11:32 AM
Here is a day picture of it thats a little better but the tans, greens, browns, and reddish lines just are not coming out in the pic. What a cool bug!!

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/539/medium/DSCN0214.JPG
Mountaineer
08-19-2006, 02:02 PM
It's cool.
spoikey
08-19-2006, 04:24 PM
It's called a Pandora Sphinx. See it here;

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&q=Pandora+sphinx&btnG=Search
alexsalmon
08-19-2006, 06:28 PM
That's a sweet moth!
Looks like that's one I might not smash if I see it!
trouttime
08-19-2006, 07:42 PM
It's called a Pandora Sphinx. See it here;

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&q=Pandora+sphinx&btnG=Search

Hey spoikey,
That is indeed the one, there are a couple of great pics of it on your link that show its colors really well, thanks man!!!! Its quite big with great colors and has provided some entertainment today.

I have had several neighbors over to check it out and none have ever seen one either. My daughter and two of her friends said " yea right Dad thats not real"!! When she went to tough it and it moved they went shrieking out of the house!!!!! :evil: :lol: :lol: