Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

Yesterday I went out to one of my favorite buggy places, and was walking along a lake. There were button bushes here and there, and I was just thinking: "These are actually host plants for cecropia caterpillars, aren't they?" And at that moment, look at what I found! I brought it home, with lots of leaves, and am now rearing it out.
As yet, it is not quite full size (about 3 1/2 inches long). When mature, they can be 4 1/2 inches. Still, it will lose to tinusbum's ginormous hickory horned devil, which may top out at just under 6 inches!
But then they will both pupate and come out as Really Big Moths. An adult cecropia moth can have a 7 inch wing span, and by that measure it's our largest moth. The adult moth from a hickory horned devil is much smaller (although plenty big), and it is our heaviest moth.

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Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Wow, that's one chubby cat. I can't wait to follow its progress. Remember a chubby cat is a happy cat

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Very nice.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

If one thinks about the life cycle of cats-2-flutterbys it is amazing and illogical simultaneously.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Lovely photographs of something I will probably never see. When he moth emerges be careful it does not carry off a small child.

Dennis

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Outstanding. Perhaps the origin of the phrase, "fat cat".

napabob Loc: Napa CA

Nice! haven't seen one of those since I left Michigan

tinusbum Loc: east texas

beautiful cat,nice shootin