Atlas Moth by Richardphotos

Photography • Animals • posted on Apr 11, 2014

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Description

they leave their cocoon and mate.then they die after two days.they can not even eat having no mouth this one is about 5 1/2 to 6 inches from tip to tip. the torso is about one inch long

Comments (38)

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aRtBee

5:57AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

cruel beauty, nice shot.

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A.C.Wolfe

6:05AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Awesome and sharp photo. You can see the fur on it.

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bazza

6:07AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Nice moth but no mouth? thats weird..

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sharky_

6:37AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

At first, I thought it was a colorful shoes (my bad)...until I took a second look and read your post. Interesting Moth... Aloha

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zaigodou

7:02AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Beautiful!!!!!!!

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sossy

7:22AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

it looks fascinating! gorgeous details! I've never seen before! suuuuper! ;o)

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CarolusB

7:24AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

lovely

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ontar1

7:45AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Very beautiful!

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rawdodb

8:02AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Beautiful Shot!!!!! Never realized they only lived for 2 days...

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illkirch

8:04AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

That's one big moth. Good it doesn't eat, would certainly wreak havoc

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eekdog Online Now!

8:25AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

cool pattern and shot..

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Faemike55

8:35AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Excellent capture that's one heck of a way to live and die

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magnus073

8:39AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Great capture of this lovely Moth, and sad thinking of it's life.

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jayfar

8:39AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Beautiful but what a sad life!

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bebopdlx

10:50AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Super shot and interesting info.

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Leije

11:04AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Splendid macrophoto !

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kenmo

11:58AM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Wow...fantastic photo....

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Cyve

12:23PM | Fri, 11 April 2014

WOW... It's realy fantastic... Marvelous image !!!

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netsuke

12:50PM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Talk about the biological imperative to procreate. Beautiful specimen.

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farmerC

12:53PM | Fri, 11 April 2014

This is a Beauty.

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ichtvan

1:21PM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Very beautiful but so cruel

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jocko500

1:23PM | Fri, 11 April 2014

very lovely

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pimanjc

2:05PM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Super.

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flavia49

3:15PM | Fri, 11 April 2014

wonderful capture

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Mark-David-Rogers

6:06PM | Fri, 11 April 2014

Moths can be as beautiful as butterflies... this has wonderful patterns and colours, so many different species. Easy way to tell the difference between a moth and a butterfly is that a butterfly can fold it's wings up, moths do not.

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