Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Death's Head Hawkmoth?

As I was leaving the house this morning, I saw this moth on the wall of my front porch. It was about 2" long.

I bent down to look at it and saw a sort of skull marking near its head. I went back inside and got my camera, but didn't get a very good picture of it. (Still having trouble with that darn Kodak).

Today I looked online to see if I could find out what kind of moth it was, and I think it is a death's head hawkmoth.

The bottom picture is from the internet, and is definitely a death's head hawkmoth. The top picture is my front porch visitor. What do you think? Is it the same kind of moth?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sure looks like it, to me.