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November 13, 2007
Mothra!
The Moth That Ate Cleveland
I often talk about how this place is teeming with life. Larry gives me a hard time when I remark about this, because he and Joseph lived in Puerto Vallarta, where it's really teeming with life. But to me, I've never lived in a place with so many different kinds of wacky bugs, reptiles, birds and animals.
About once a year, we'll be sitting in our living room and an enormous moth or butterfly comes in through the open window. Above is this year's model, which we first noticed when it flew into Shawn's face. We were able to catch it in a plastic bag when it stopped to rest, and we released it back into the wild.
You can't really tell from the photo, but the wingspan on this thing was at least five inches. The piece of wood on the left (there are two pushed together, but you can see the line where they meet) is four centimeters (just a bit more than one and a half inches) wide.
Posted by crispy at November 13, 2007 12:31 AM
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Hmm. A couple of months ago, I was grilling on the patio when what I thought was a bat hit the side of the house and then thrashed about on the patio.
Turns out it was a similar moth.
The Log would freak about such things, considering the cops visited our house in Eldorado thinking there was a domestic battery in progress. She had been screaming and running past the windows, and I was following with an arm above my head with a blunt weapon firmly grasped.
After dispatching the foe, I went to the liquor store (just like all wife/moth beaters). That's when two cops showed up and said they got a call about a disturbance.
She was too embarrassed to say she was screaming about a moth, so she just said no, everything is fine.
Posted by: Mark Allen at November 13, 2007 04:52 PM
I was driving to work one early evening in Mesa, AZ and was hit very hard in the face by something leather, I looked down and saw the most enormous Cicada crawing up my shirt. I screamed like a little girl and killed it with my copy of the AZ Republic.
[crispy says: Ew! I hate those. They're awful!]
Posted by: Akira at November 13, 2007 06:39 PM