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| Back in the saddle again Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Central TX west of Houston 
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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).
		 
				__________________ Steve '08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960 - never named a car before, but this is Charlotte. '88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten | ||
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			….and, it can fly !!!!
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  Palo Verde Beetle Up to 3 inches, with giant jaws, AND they fly! 
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			Tersa Sphinx Moth. I saw one of these at my Grandmother's house, it looked like a sleek jet plane!!!   Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk 
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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.
		 
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			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.  Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk 
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