What is your favorite moth?

[Tenshi Eating A Corn Dog!]

I really like the Bertholdia Trigona. It's the only known creature in nature that jams the echolocation of its predators (bats). Really neat.

 

[A-Stump]

Carolina Sphinx Moth.

Spoiler: Big boy

Look at this big beefy bastard

 

[Yugica]

Rosy maple moths are really cute.

I don't really have a favorite moth though. I just like a lot of them.

 

[Jesus Swept]

It's a tie up between October and December

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

bogong moth

even moths in australia want to kill you

 

[SITHRAK!]

Acherontia Atropos

 

[OrionBalls]

I love Luna moths so much, I have a cardigan that looks like them.

 

[Ventrue]

Cinnabar moth

 

[Gan Ying]

This guy that I saw outside my window a couple years ago. In Japan they're called オオミズアオ (oomizuao) and the scientific name is Actias aliena. I'd never heard of them until this guy showed up on my window. I thought he was a bird at first. He was bigger than he looks here.

 

[Pruto]

This asshole

 

[dick brain]

@Moths

 

[fake farts]

Good thread with a lot of good choices. Posting sphinx moths and saturniids is practically cheating, but those things are loved for good reasons.

Hummingbird Clearwing Moths are adorable, especially with their lobster tail looking abdomens.


Cecropias have such a good color and are fuzzy (this one is female by the way).


Outside the group, Southern Flannel Moths are tiny and cute.


Their caterpillar looks like this, which is irritating to the touch on human skin.


I even like these lil doods who look like twigs. Buff Tip Moth.

 

[grump]

Butterflies. AKA daytime moths.

 

[Lords Greatsword]

I like these little guys and the sound they make

 

[fake farts]

Enjoy some moths flying in slow motion.

 

[dick brain]

Enjoy some moths flying in slow motion.

Reassuring how something that looks so graceful and effortless at our scale looks so dumb and clumsy on theirs.

 

[Emo Supremo]

Hummingbird Clearwing Moths are adorable, especially with their lobster tail looking abdomens.

i logged back in after a thousand year hiatus to respond with a rebuttal: snowberry clearwings. they cosplay as bumblebees, another legendarily adorable bug, and when they're in flight they pull it off so well that the first time i saw one in the wild i didn't know it was a moth until i noticed its wings weren't making a buzzing sound.

(i'm also biased because there was one snowberry clearwing who stopped by the woodland phlox flowerbed every day and i get a sense of validation from pollinator traffic to my gardens, probably moreso than is healthy)

 

[Kiwisee]

Silkworm moths are very cute

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Retarded dagger moth.

 

[fake farts]

i logged back in after a thousand year hiatus to respond with a rebuttal: snowberry clearwings. they cosplay as bumblebees, another legendarily adorable bug, and when they're in flight they pull it off so well that the first time i saw one in the wild i didn't know it was a moth until i noticed its wings weren't making a buzzing sound.

(i'm also biased because there was one snowberry clearwing who stopped by the woodland phlox flowerbed every day and i get a sense of validation from pollinator traffic to my gardens, probably moreso than is healthy)

I forgot the name of those, but yeah, they're good too. Another one I like is the Large Tolype Moth.

Silkworm moths are very cute
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They are! The ones bred for captivity have lost functionality of their wings though, and it's pretty depressing.