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Antheraea polyphemus
The Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus) is a North American member of the family Saturniidae, the giant silk moths.[1] It is a tan colored moth, with an average wingspan of 15 cm (6 inches). The most notable feature of the moth is its large, purplish eyespots on its two hindwings. The eye spots are where it gets its name – from the Greek myth of the Cyclops Polyphemus. The species is widespread in continental North America, with local populations found throughout subarctic Canada and the United States. The caterpillar of the Polyphemus Moth can eat 86,000 times its weight at emergence in a little less than two months.
Spotted under a Live Oak tree in late Feb.
beautiful capture Alice,beautiful photo,congrats,thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah :)
I hope you like the site and the community as much we do.There are many features you can explore,the chats for questions and comments on your's and other's spottings and to elp you in the ID process,a blog wich link is http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where you can find articls about wildlife writen by our best's specialist's in each field and news about some of our most knowed users wild adventures and experiences.
Normaly spottings are adeed to missions to make easier the acess to other user's,the missions link is this http://www.projectnoah.org/missions ,here you can find the ones fits better in your case.Attention to the range of each mission,there are missions that haved a global name but are local,so you have to see the map of the mission and their you have the range of the mission marked,if is in your residential area ist' good,them there are global missions that you can join freely.For furder info you should go to http://www.projectnoah.org/faq ,here you will find all the rules of Project Noah
Enjoy your self,see you arround :-)
Spotted on Feb 23, 2012
Submitted on Dec 1, 2012
