Weird insects!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by bkreigsr

I'm imagining the visuals along with the statement "that's not a beetle...." (you've got to imagine it in Crocodile Dundee's voice).

[bkreigsr]

….and, it can fly !!!!

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by masraum

I'm imagining the visuals along with the statement "that's not a beetle...." (you've got to imagine it in Crocodile Dundee's voice).

That's not a beetle...


Palo Verde Beetle
Up to 3 inches, with giant jaws, AND they fly!

[gregpark]

[HobieMarty]

Tersa Sphinx Moth. I saw one of these at my Grandmother's house, it looked like a sleek jet plane!!!

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[masraum]

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

Tersa Sphinx Moth. I saw one of these at my Grandmother's house, it looked like a sleek jet plane!!!

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I'm on a facebook group for snake/reptile/insect identification in Florida. Sphynx moths come up fairly frequently. They are very cool looking. Like you said, they look like the fighter jets of the moth world.

[HobieMarty]

I wish I could find the pictures of the one I saw at my Grandmother's house. It was perched above her front door at the ceiling of her porch and I thought it was the coolest looking thing. At the time I had no idea that it was a moth, I didn't know exactly what it was. I stood on a step ladder and got some really close up pictures, I remember the antennae (?) looked like feathers and it was a light color, coolest moth I ever saw.

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