The Nature Photography Thread

[guidofatherof5]

Thanks for the education.

Once again, they are very cool.

[ConcinusMan]

Well then I suppose you better keep her well-fed and hopefully she won't eat the babies.

[MasSalvaje]

Well then I suppose you better keep her well-fed and hopefully she won't eat the babies.

That is the key Richard!

-Thomas

[CelestiHel]

Oh, that's awesome! I've never seen baby scorpions before.

[drache]

very cool
and a very nice photo

[guidofatherof5]

While cutting the lawn this morning I located the beautiful moth. I think it may be a Cecropia silkmoth. Correct me if I am wrong.

[ConcinusMan]

I don't think so, I used to find silk moths in San Diego and they are enormous and more colorful,(can be mistaken for a bird flying overhead) but I can't offer an alternate I.D. for the moth you found.

[Snakers]

man the only real giants we have are luna moths which i've only seen one live one in my life, the rest I have found were all dead

[Mommy2many]

I'm with Nolan. We have the Luna moths here as well and I have been lucky enough to have seen a few of them on occasion over the past few years. They have usually landed on my kitchen window for a day. They are absolutely beautiful moths and quite large. I hear they only live to breed in the moth stage and do not eat, surviving only about a week I think. Too bad for such an amazing creature.

[HazAnga]

We saw a Luna moth when we were on vacation in Florida. Yes it was Dieing... but it was huge and my parents thought it was a butterfly, but soon found out the truth. I never knew they only lived in moth mode for breeding.