Noticed this beast had fixed himself to my car yesterday morning:

Untitled by T*inbred, on Flickr

Amazing shades of camo. Also amazingly grippy feet – he had 2 trips down the motorway at 70mph in heavy rain! Still there this morning but had dispapeared by the time I got to work.

I’ve not seen one like this before, his body was about 2 inches long. Can any bug experts identify it for me?

Also, can you make tyres out of super grippy moth paws?

Looks like a Lime Hawkmoth

I’m liking that bit of delta wing going on there..Probably a US mil tracking drone. Consider yourself bugged.

Amazing shades of camo.

Why thank you. 😉

Among my pathetic phobias is mottephobia- the fear of moths. The only thing that keeps me going day to day is the knowledge that in the UK, they don’t get very big, and I can always outrun them in my mothproof car.

Til now.

that’s not a moth..
It’s clearly a baby Robin

You ain’t seen his big brother Northwind

Hah, well played! That’d get your attention if it was flying round the lightbulb.

You ain’t seen his big brother Northwind

One of the most beautiful planes right there…

We get quite a few of these in our garden: Elephant Hawk Moth
The larva seem to love my fuchsia’s

Got a few pics of hawk moths when we travelled round SE Asia. Excellent camo patterns: