Found this little guy in my garden..
 

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I've since discovered it is an emperor moth and it has taken up residence on the underside of the railings at my back steps.. and has laid eggs.. so it's not a little guy at all.. it's a little gal..

Wow! Stunning! :love:

KILL IT

:nono:

I've never seen one as large before. I looked it up and found out the emperor female is larger than the male.. and has a wingspan up to 8cm.. which is about right for this one..

I'm not sure how long the eggs will be there..

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BREAK ITS LEGS

I can't believe it let you handle it....pretty amazing :love:

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They're not dangerous. Nothing to be scared about. :hugesmile:

revolting

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Karl, I can't believe how much of a pussy you are lol

Ammi.. it just walked onto my hand.. didn't want to leave lol.. I had to coerce it into walking onto the planter on top of my rabbit hutch..

Moths are beautiful.

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Still a moth

The moth likes you! :D

I agree Vanessa.

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You can kinda see the eggs... it's hard to take the pic.. my railings are rusty and she's on the underside..

Wow she's stunning :love:

She's huge.. I'm quite fascinated with her. I read somewhere that she'll die once she's laid all her eggs though.. which makes me sad.

:(

why did I look @ this? Im sweating now I have a phobia of moths and butterlies arghhhh

why did I look @ this? Im sweating now I have a phobia of moths and butterflies arghhhh

They can't hurt, mizzy. They just look big. :hugesmile:

They look so pretty on photos

But I am scared of them IRL...when theres just a big black fuzzy thing flying at your head over and over, they arent so pretty D:

But they can't harm you. :hugesmile:

Neither can most spiders, doesnt stop a lot of people crapping themselves when they see one of the little things :laugh:

She's beautiful. Amazing creature. :love:

True! :joker:

My daughter has a phobia of moths and butterflies also..

lOVELY! :)

WOW ,that is beautiful :lovedup:

That's beautiful!!!!
Are you/is it in the UK ?

I saw one of those Hummingbird Hawk-moth's last year in my garden and it blew my mind. I'd never heard of them before i saw it so i was like "what the hell is that ?" to my mother and she didn't know either. We were convinced it was a Hummingbird at first, which was strange considering i live in Wales, but i went out and had a look at it up close (it was flying constantly from plant to plant and just hovering to feed from the flowers) and when i was up close you could barely see that what looked like a beak was actually a proboscis and it was retracting it super quick now and again. It even sounded like a hummingbird!
Definitely the most unusual moth i've ever seen.

...she is beautiful Lily...I'm sure that I read somewhere that although they are rare, you're more likely to find an Emperor Moth in Scotland...I would feel kind of special if I had one in my garden...

I'm in Scotland..

Update: She's still here... she moved off her eggs, and was sitting on the steps when I got home today. I let her walk onto my hand again, and took some pics.. then put her into one of my plant pots.. I wonder where she'll be tomorrow.

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Tried to take a face-on pic.. but she is camera shy haha

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Aw...and bless your cat too just sat there getting in on the pic - my cats spend hours trying to catch and eat moths and butterflies...

let that go in the average office and watch the panic and mayhem ensue

No.

I think she's dying. :(