check out this beauty!

[web eviction]

Found the poor guy resting up on the sidewalk

 

[zachrocks]

That is beautiful!!!

 

[Kruggar]

I rarely find large moths, i very jealous!

 

[MrCrackerpants]

Thanks for sharing the pictures. Very cool.

 

[SandDeku]

lucky man! I love moths! I wonder where they sell dried, and already mounted moths and butterflies as well as other insects for sale? lol.

 

[llamastick]

heh, wing pattern looks like the top of a snake's head if you tilt the first pic clockwise

 

[Insectboi111]

Is that a Hyalophora cecropia?

 

[Bugs In Cyberspace]

Could be Hyalophora gloveri or Hyalophora euryalus, assuming somebody didn't hatch out a (eastern US species) H. cecropia and release it. Photos on bugguide might help to nail it down.

 

[web eviction]

I have found these every year since I was very young

 

[ZergFront]

Too bad non-native moths are illegal. I would love to get some Cecropia and luna moth cocoons.

Oregon is amazing. They have just so many bugs. Saw this one family on Animal Planet living in a house surrounded by trees and shade so they got thousands of spiders in the house. They bug bombed it and made things worse because it made room and got rid of spiders that preyed on hobo spiders. The wife was bitten by one but lived.

 

[bugmankeith]

Polyphemus Moths are in my area and spectacular looking, but if one flies into you at night you think it's a bat lol.