Nature is cool

"coelacanthist" (coelacanthist) 06/08/2016 at 23:26 • Filed to: None

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Just saw a strange creature in my yard, learn something new everyday.

http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/faq/i-saw-moth…

vdub_nut: scooter snob > coelacanthist 06/08/2016 at 23:35

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I love Sphinxi!!

Berang > coelacanthist 06/08/2016 at 23:36

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Wait till you see the caterpillar they come from... or its gigantic green poops...

We’d get these a lot when I lived in Colorado.

coelacanthist > vdub_nut: scooter snob 06/08/2016 at 23:37

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Tripped me out! Admittedly I've had a couple of brews tonight, but it took me quite a while to figure out I wasn't looking at a bird.

Birddog > coelacanthist 06/08/2016 at 23:42

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I felt the same way when I saw my first Coot!

Pic from Google of course.

Carbon Fiber Sasquatch > coelacanthist 06/08/2016 at 23:49

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Crazy how nature do dat

ttyymmnn > coelacanthist 06/08/2016 at 23:52

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Neat. I photographed one of those in my garden a few years ago. I thought it was a hummingbird at first.

coelacanthist > ttyymmnn 06/08/2016 at 23:53

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Great shot.

Sam > coelacanthist 06/09/2016 at 07:28

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Fun fact: that family of moths are part of the origin of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. He had an orchid with an incredibly long nectar chamber (nearly a foot long) so he surmised that there must be a creature that has evolved a proboscis long enough to reach the nectar at the bottom.

coelacanthist > Sam 06/09/2016 at 09:49

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That's in the movie Adaptation too, great scene. Forgot about that.