The Nature Photography Thread

[CelestiHel]

Luna moths are common here in New England (yay), but it is true that if you are seeing them in daylight it is because they're dying. Some only last about a week, a month is on the long side. They are quite something to see at night flying in the headlights of your car or around a porch light, though. Very fast fliers they are! I frequently have to rescue them from webs around my workplace lights when I work the night shift, since the wolf spiders love those lights, too! Never seen a spider get one, though, they're so big they just tear up the web too fast.

[mustang]

i love elephant hawkmoths they look really cool and the catapillars have a defensive ability to inflate their head to look like a snake...but iv never seen a ive one


catapillar image(snake defense)

[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.

I think this may be a Polyphemus Moth. Mine has different antenna than the one pictured in the link but that may just be a difference in the sexes.
File:Polyphemus Moth.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[guidofatherof5]

Found this Cicada this morning. It has an injured wing and is probably coming to the end of its life cycle. Cicada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My daughter Hailee named him John.

[infernalis]

that's a big ugly bug Steve...

[guidofatherof5]

Great images, Robert.

[Snakers]

found a cicada in my pool this morning!he was still alive!

[mustang]

shannon should be all over this thread now, were talkn bout bugs

[ConcinusMan]

I hear them every year in my backyard on a maple tree but I never get to see them.

[Snaky]

Long time that I had taken a look in the thread. Some great pictures of everybody, very nice!

The last one's with the moths are also awesome.