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Polyphemus Moth

Antheraea polyphemus

Photo by MurrayDaniels
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39.0618, -83.0216

Field Notes

Description:

Male.

Habitat:

I found this moth on the sidewalk directly in front of my apartment during the time that I was living in Piketon, Ohio, approximately around 2009.

Notes:

Picture taken with my Polaroid i835 digital camera.

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Comments (7)

@AntónioGinjaGinja - Thank you very much for the info. :)
Great first spotting Murray ,beautiful moth ,congrats,thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah :-) I hope you like the site us much we do,there are many features you can explore,first you should read the http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you have all the "rules" of Project Noah :-) You have also a blog http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we post articles from our best specialists in the diferents areas and also storys of wildlife "adventures" from our most knowened users. There are also the chats for elp in the id process and to comment your's and other's spottings. Attention when join local missions http://www.projectnoah.org/missions they have a range that is in the mission map,see first that before join.you only can submit spotting in a mission if the photos where taken inside the mission range. Enjoy your self,see you arround :-)

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