Big moth

[DizzyDigger]

..Ok, it's big for here..it's about 2" from head to tail. Never seen one
like it around the front porch light..



I think it's called a "White Lined Sphinx Moth".

 

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[mindcrime1988]

It's a Bedstraw Hawk moth.

 

[No gold in NY]

Some of them are big and beautiful. I especially like the luna moth. Too bad they only live for one day. Great to be a human.

 

[creskol]

Cool Pic! Love the designs on some of those moths! Nature is awesome!

 

[DizzyDigger]

It's a Bedstraw Hawk moth.

You nailed it..but, there is a plot complication; that moth does
not live in the US, more specifically Pacific Northwest.

Looked it up, and according to the "experts", that moth lives
in: England, Scotland and Wales. Widespread but
uncommon/recorded all over UK, usually in small but fairly
regular numbers, although occasionally in large numbers
following a long period of absence or scarcity. Resident in Europe
(east of southern France, north as far as Denmark/southern
Scandinavia and Russia.

https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/bedstraw-hawk-moth

Damn things a tourist!

Another site says different..

https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Galium-Sphinx-Moth

 

[Jim in Idaho]

We get them here now and then. usually see at least one every year.
Jim

 

[Tpmetal]

We get all sorts of monster moths by me, and thousands of varieties of smaller ones too. A guy from our local college did a bunch of photographing of them with a electron microscope. Look up Joseph Scheer moths for some really cool detailed stuff

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice photo, thank you for sharing!

 

[Flipperfla]

Smoky Mountains, Lake Fontana

 

[tamrock]

When I was young in Illinois the neighbor kids would hang up a big white bed sheet on the clothesline at night and shine a trouble-light on it to attract big moths like those luna moths and ones like you photo'd. It worked really well at getting big moths to come in for observation.

 

[A2coins]

Thats a biggn

 

[njrelicgairl]

Nice Picture,and cool moth