Those probably keep the predators guessing.

Lots of them.

My friend Chris just showed up for dinner and Game 4 of the NBA Finals and immediately he said there was a cool looking moth outside.  I grabbed my camera and bolted for the door.

On my finger, for scale.

How do I find out the real names for these moths?  It turns out there are an incredible amount of moth types.  I personally love Bug Guide’s tools for figuring out what bug you found.

I think I’m going to keep it a long-term goal to continue to add photos of moths to my site. As I mentioned on Twitter yesterday the number of referrals to my site from Google’s Image search for moth are staggering ((At least to me.)). I’m looking forward to working at this new goal.

In case you’ve missed them in the past, check out the Tolype Velleda and cecropia moth.

Another moth and not to be confused with the huge moth that was on our porch in May of this year. Mike and I were headed to lunch at Lunkerz Deli and Mike spotted this fella on the porch.

Large Tolype – Tolype velleda

I had to do some extensive searching of “the Internets” to find out what type of moth this was, and it is called a Large Tolype. Its genus and species is Tolype velleda or “veiled moth”. Very fitting. More information can be found at the Bug Guide.

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Moth on the porch | click the moth for more photos

He still hasn’t flown away. I am thinking maybe he’d be good for the diet. How many calories in a moth anyway?

Update: Turns out this is a form of cecropia moth.