Giant Moth Leaves Wonderful Gifts For the Woman Who Rescued Her.

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[louis-t]

1. Ain't nature grand?!!

[Fla Dem]

2. Moths are basically pollinators and food for small animals and birds.

It's a shame, but many species exist only for the benefit of other species. It's the same for all the fish, shellfood and animals we eat.

[erronis]

7. It's just life. It's not a shame. We (humans) are just envelopes for other critters and food

for the critters who come upon our remains.

We may hold ourselves in some high godly regard but we aren't any better or worse than any other creature in the universe.

[Fla Dem]

14. Not sure how you interpreted my comment as a pronouncement that I hold humans in a "godly" regard.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. erronis did not refer to YOU. You are taking offense where there is none.

The statement

We may hold ourselves in some high godly regard

has the self-inclusive word "we", so if anybody, erronis is referring to themself.

It did NOT say "Fla Dem holds themself in some high godly regard".

It was a general observation about many people, especially I think the "holier than thou" evangelicals, who believe that "dominion" over flora and fauna means rape and plunder mother nature.

[TygrBright]

21. We are all eaters, and we are all created to be eaten.

Humankind thinks we can subvert this, with embalming and other weird body-disposal practices... but in the end, the microorganisms and the fungi will eat us - as ashes, as bones, as whatever we leave behind.

Personally, I'd prefer a sky burial, but we're too squicky a culture about death to make that easy.

All life lives at the expense of other life.

philosophically,
Bright

[hlthe2b]

3. Miraculous!

[callous taoboy]

4. I find a lot of those cocoons on my property.

I figured they were moth cocoons. Now I know.

[3catwoman3]

5. What a strange and interesting story.

180 hatched! That must have been something to see.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. wonder if related to this moth?

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the real moth was a mom and real cool looking.

[cstanleytech]

8. I have only seen one of those and it was about 40 or so years ago.

[YoshidaYui]

9. ITS not named Mothra??

[BigmanPigman]

10. I raised silkworm moths for 10 years.

They were the same as this moth except they would only eat Mulberry leaves.

My first grade students loved it. We made it into a Reading, Science and Math project. When they start eating it is just like this video. Non stop eating and my students said they sound "like rain" and they did. I had to wait for the Mulberry tree next to my classroom to grow new leaves every year for my moths. After they mated they put their eggs all over the sides of the aquarium and I would scrape them off and put them into a container in my fridge for a whole year, when the leaves grew again. You can make the eggs hibernate for a year this way.

[Ocelot II]

12. Polyphemus moth - very cool!

[Warpy]

13. Sorry, but wool moths and pantry moths can all go DIAF

An infestation rode in here in a bag of bird seed and I had a hell of a time getting rid of them.

Pheromone traps worked about the best, but weren't specific to only one type of moth, they attracted the generic porch light moths indoors if wasn't careful.

[Karadeniz]

15. Inspirational!!!

[FoxNewsSucks]

16. That's a very interesting video

[Peregrine Took]

18. Thank you a million times over. n/t

[Stuart G]

19. First time video on a single Giant Moth...First time for everything they say. Thank You for posting

[MontanaMama]

20. Beautiful. This made my day.

There are so many mysteries of nature that make our lives better if only we were open to them.

[calimary]

22. What a remarkable story!

Those are truly glorious creatures!

[UTUSN]

23. Fantastic

[druidity33]

24. looks like a tomato hornworm in cat stage...

but the moth looks more like a Luna. I'd be curious to know what species it is. I remove tomato hornworms and throw them into the woods... Sorry. They eat tomato plants mercilessly, hence the name. They are a wicked cool looking caterpillar though.



K&R

[XacerbatedDem]

25. Such a beautiful story. Thank you for posting, it really made my day.