Moth ID

[Anastasia]

came across to this beaute, tried to find what is it no much luck
location is Northeast US

and what is it doing??

this is a good size moth, 3-4" my droid next

very pretty thing, Am not sure what to do with it? :?

 

[Galapoheros]

Looks like a Cecropia moth:clap:

 

[The Spider Faery]

WOW!! That is a beautiful moth and those look like eggs ?

 

[ZephAmp]

Cecropia moth laying eggs!
Put the eggs in a sealed container along with some silver maple leaves and soon enough you should have some caterpillars!
They may or may not be fertilized, though. :/

 

[auroborus]

its deff not a cecropia, maybe a glovers silk moth. They look a lot alike but there are deff wing pattern differences

 

[Moltar]

Wow! Super cool! Good luck in getting some lil 'pillars.

 

[Anastasia]

Thank you for all reply's I searched more and come up with
Promethea silkmoth
Callosamia promethea (Drury, 1773)
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=3284
also found awesome site
http://tdserver1.fnal.gov/peterson/tom/butterflies/FermilabButterflyTable.html
I let go that Female and discharged eggs on my large lilac bush

 

[ZephAmp]

Thank you for all reply's I searched more and come up with
Promethea silkmoth
Callosamia promethea (Drury, 1773)
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=3284
also found awesome site
http://tdserver1.fnal.gov/peterson/tom/butterflies/FermilabButterflyTable.html
I let go that Female and discharged eggs on my large lilac bush

Forgot completely about those. lol
I think the caterpillars of those are like cecropia moth 'pillars except they don't have as many little bumpy things.

 

[Galapoheros]

Yeah me too, never seen one of those in person before.

 

[VinceG]

Awesome specimen you found there!

The Callosamia promethea caterpillars are one of the most beautiful IMO, yeah they do look a bit like the cecropia ones

 

[Anastasia]

Thank you Vince
I will be keeping my eye out for any caterpillars on that bush
and if I find any I will grab few pictures

 

[Anastasia]

well well, I have to confess I didnt discharged all the eggs I kept few
and look what happened

gang of teeny lill pillar's
that is quarter for the scale, pillar's only 1/8"

 

[KenTheBugGuy]

man

that is awesome Anastasia...absolutely beautiful moth....

 

[Philth]

Incredible pics ! Very coool. Never saw a pic of a caterpillar hatching before. Its so cute haha. What a beautiful moth and caterpillar , im curious to see how they grow.

Later, Tom

 

[syndicate]

Very cool!I bet those little caterpillars would make good spider snacks haha!
JK! ;]
Good luck raising them up!
-Chris

 

[VinceG]

Really nice! congratz on the larvae! Keep us updated on them!

 

[Anastasia]

Thanks guys , yes they a real interesting to watch, they came out of the eggs wet,
then dried out and scored fuzzy coats and whole alots of cuteness besides extreme appetites :drool:
I will be taking pix every month to see how fast they grow
also they are so darn fast
never knew pillars can move so swiftly, not kidding

 

[cacoseraph]

they look like they are expanding considerably after they crawl out of that little ol' egg. a lot of true bugs expand to 2x their egg's volume. these little dudes look like they are doing 3x at least. awesome pictures