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Bro there’s literally two on my window and also a manduca rustica! And that one matched my sneakers and wallet. What does it all meaaaan!!!

Absolutely gorgeous female specimen

Super cool indeed you have the real bug eyes.

I am gonna humanely euthanize my moth I have at home he’s a large tolype moth he started not moving he could move his wings and everything when I found him now he can’t move a single muscle even when I annoy him (pick him up put him on new surfaces etc) he can only barely move his wings that’s how I know he’s alive I feel so bad for the poor thing I thought he’d get better but i guess not his abdomen is also flattened?! I don’t know how that happened bc when I do pick him up I just gently scoop my finger under him and then boom he’s on my hand I feel bad for him when he dies I’ll preserve him into a little thing so I can always remember him

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It’s a black witch

Such a cool be fruitful and multiply life cycle process! And food is READY from the get go to!!! 😎💯🤙👍😊

Oh that eyeo is awesome. Caterpillars are really cool as well

Very nice! Those caterpillar look awesome I assume they are also poisonous?

If, or rather when, I end up visiting Florida this moth will be on the top of my list. Such an awesome moth, love seeing videos of it so its nice to get a dedicated video! Ichneumenoptera chrysophanes is about the closest we have to this, not nearly as impressive but still cool..

Just a random thought but I think its so cool your son is interested in bugs too. Your dad, you and your son, 3 generations of entomologists that is AWESOME.

I just saw one in Riverside County in California. I was terrified!!

Any tips for helping ensure they stay alive? I tried my hand at these this year and have greatly struggled with them. Initially it was finding out what food they would eat because I had them shipped in from out of state, figured out they liked sugar hackberry then they changed their minds and would only eat osage orange, but after that I struggled to know what they wanted that wasn't food related. Thought it was humidity so I tried to keep things humid but still had some dying, heat seemed to help. Is 70's too cold for these guys?

Cool

One just flew into my house. He landed on the front of the sofa. I was able to take some pics. I had no idea what he was but knew he had a large body and wingspan the way he was buzzing around the room. Thanks for the video!

Another great one.

Amazing video 👍👍

I’ve got 200 of these babies I’m raising right now

Hard not to feel a little envious at times being a collector for almost 50 years and watching your videos down there in Florida. Now here's a video I can relate to this year after raising a few myself. Getting nailed by the spines is all part of experience if not almost impossible.

Vaperrub can unstuff u but moths are adorable and amazing and they don't get noticed enough they have very short lives but they are very pretty did u murder them 😢

Found one of these fat guys on my front door in Tampa Florida.

Super cool! 😊 I love the slow motion shots towards the end 🦋

Is it easy to find replacement mercury vapor bulbs if yours burns out? I don't think they make them anymore

I just found one in San Diego CA, huge! I was like what the what?? I had to take a picture and I googled it then found your video.

I'm surprised you haven't gone full butterfly gardener. With your knowledge of rearing them I would figure caged raised beds and a full butterflyscape for sure. That is my plan when I get a house.

Plant the host plants and the insects will find them.

So cool ,,,,we dont have any yet in orlando ,,,plenty of county around ❤

Good example of even the best-kept specimen may develop some 'difference'.

Very much respect the fact that Entomology is much more popular and respected in the US! You've certainly got plenty of spp. to study there. Australia has some ultra-rarities, BUT.....try swinging a net around like that in public and law-enforcement will turn up in three minutes flat (not joking). The only possible way to collect over here is on farmer's properties. Also, our trees are tall so it's better to work out the life-history and breed out a nice series.

Do they change in their own lifetime or is it a ancestral evolution

Great video, very informative.

Keep the bug knowledge coming my dear brother🙌🙏😎❤

Can you upload more videos of how you unwrap small night butterflies (moths) - showing how you do it exactly?

Please tell me what plants they are 😢

Very nice.

Great video! Every time I see one of these I run the other way, I know they are harmless, but my reaction is always to run from the giant red wasp! 😹😹😹

great content ! I myself am passionate about butterflies since I was 7 years old and I envy you the number of species you have around you. In Poland where I live all species are about 3600 (butterflies and moths). The species you show are amazing - I would like to be able to get such butterflies as Cosmosoma myrodora for my collection someday.

Help please tell me what type they are

I found one but it died

Woah bro 😮

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Larviphagy! A new feeding behavior!

Hi your pink spotted moth was in MN back in the 80s. I had saw it. Weird large, next day gone.

Beautiful ❤

OMG how cute...their heads look like a koala bear face! 🐨🤍Do you think they might be hibernating because the know there might not be enough viable food?

Found it eating my grapevine in Trinidad 🇹🇹

Beautiful child.......👌👌👌💋💋

Little Buddy Captain Lorenzo is getting a "girdle" lesson from papa Dave🤗😎 #Bugbonding❤😊🤙

毛虫可愛いです、ナイス🎉🎉🎉

I saw one of these in Quintana Roo, Mexico in 1977. I was holding an insect net and one flew into the clearing we were walking through. My major professor told me to catch it but I wasn't sure I wanted a wasp that large in my net. I made an effort at chasing it and just missed as it flew into the jungle. For many years no one would believe I had seen a wasp that large, one of the advantages of the internet.