Enormous Moth

Peyton Manning

Can anyone tell me what this little creature is? We saw our cat just sitting outside looking at something intently, and we found this little (big) guy. Looks like a moth, but absolutely huge. Here he is in comparison to a normal sized credit/debit card:

splish

Looking at the UK Moths website it looks like a Convolvulus Hawk-moth. Mothman would probably be able to give you a more definite identification.

Mothman

Brilliant, a Convolvulus Hawk-moth.
There is an influx of these and other migrants moths including Death's Head Hawk-moth during the past few days.
http://www.mothsireland.com/migrants.htm



Please pm details of this sighting for the record books http://www.mothsireland.com/species/1972.htm
Date - today?
Location name
grid ref use http://www.gridreference.ie/
your full name

Peyton Manning

PM sent. Glad to be of any assistance, really was a spectacular creature!

Mothman

Thanks for that, first record I have for Co. Kilkenny

Often a place they are found is on the clothes out on a line, possibly attracted by the scent.
Also they are particularly fond of tobacco plant (Nicotiana) and some moth enthusiasts plant this plant in the hope of attracting this species.

Peyton Manning

Funnily enough that picture was taken directly underneath our clothesline! Although there was no clothes hanging out at the time

Mothman

Archimedes wrote: »

Funnily enough that picture was taken directly underneath our clothesline! Although there was no clothes hanging out at the time

artieanna

Wow he's beautiful, well captured, the card really shows off how large he is.

Nice one;)