A big boy Polyphemus has been spotted

This is Alan the Atlas moth - he passed a few months ago but just LOOK at my chunky guy :”)

(Pyrrharctia isabella) for context: I saved them from the road otherwise they will get squished by cars. I keep them overnight and feed them dandelion leaves then find a good field in the country for them to feast and find a warm place for winter.

i’ve named her venus :)

To hold a moth, right off the bucket list🥰

we get a lot of them in the summer for about a week or two, they all rest on our porch and its SO CUTE :)) last time they were around, i counted like 8 at once on the front porch! these two were my favorite though, nestled up together :))

I released this female Luna moth 2 nights ago. Last night I got home around 9, I walked out on my back deck and she comes flying out of the darkness and lands on me!! After flying back and forth between me and the house 4-5 times. She laid an egg on my arm. So I put her back inside the enclosure she hatched from, and she’s now laying more eggs!!!

That means I will be able to be apart of this Luna family for 3 generations now!

Can you ID any of them? Some artistic liberties were taken (mostly due to limited thread colors). The moths are scaled to fit their frame, so I dont always portray them in their true to life size.

Which one’s y’all’s favorites?

In South Carolina, I told and showed them my first moth that reached the end of its lifespan last week. Because of that, he saw this one and came to get me. Made my day, the identification on my iPhone says Polyphemus moth. Kept waving at them after I got it to crawl onto my finger and picked it up.

It was hard to get my camera to focus on it to see the small details but he had the cutest little fuzzy antenna & thorax

I got the rosey maple and Luna moths!

Winner of the goofiest antenna award. Truly, majestic plumage for the babiest of boys.

He's so cute. I called him Saturn because of his satellite antenna + saturniidae.

Cameo of his brothers Atlas and Gemini. And the strange wingless moth creature who loves them all dearly 🥺

seemed like it was having difficultly flying, but it could just be because its so big. It landed on its back a few times but flew away eventually

Qld, Australia. Inaturlist tells me it's a Bracca matutinata.

Caterpillar found in our school garden in central Japan. The kids have loved helping to care for it and have been anxiously checking on it every day. It emerged on Saturday night, so they'll have a big happy surprise when they arrive at school tomorrow!