40% people end up by quarreling the difference between a butterfly and moth 😂

Found one about 15 minutes ago on my porch on Camano Island, WA. I had never seen a moth so big! After watching I’m guessing it was a male with a 5” wingspan. Sounded like a bird flying around! I am still shocked at how big and beautiful these moths are.

@photosbyreneemwilliams6812

Жыл бұрын

I just found a cocoon in Snohomish, and now I feel like an expecting mom, since it won't come out till SPRING!!! I better make a safe space!!!

"A face only a mother could love?" was hella funny 🤣

Perfect video! I found a caterpillar and kept her. She has now hatched and attracted a mate and laid eggs. I wanted to know what to expect. Thank you for this highly informational video

I just found one of these caterpillars yesterday so plump and beautifully colored

@ithinkiknow

2 жыл бұрын

We got one in our backyard today as I got to hold it they’re so beautiful

@PalCan

Жыл бұрын

I found one today in Ontario Canada. Amazing

@MissouriGuerrilla

Жыл бұрын

found one 2 days ago and it was about 4 inches long. I out it in an enclosure with sticks and silver maple leaves. It wrapped itself up in the leaves on the first night now I'm waiting on it to emerge in about a month or so or six. I don't know if it will winter in there or not.

@marygrabill7127

9 ай бұрын

@@MissouriGuerrilla I just rescued one and it wrapped itself up in leaves the first night as well. What month did you find yours and did you have it all winter?

This is such a cute little channel about insects and animals!

I'm so happy that I found this channel ! Awesome work pal ! Love it!

Doug! You’re the best. Thank you for sharing this beautiful process with us.

Stunning photography and excellent explanations. Thank you so much for doing this.

I find it amazing that mush can turn into such beautiful fur and hairs inside a cocoon!

I just saw one of these beautiful moths yesterday at my condo door in Jacksonville, FL. This is the 3rd year in a row of seeing them a couple of feet from the front door. They're so beautiful! Thank you very much for this fascinating video with so many little details. Wonderful.💖

These videos are awesome! Such a treat to get to witness the life of these insects. Thank you!

Such a great video - we found one of these moths in our yard and now we know all about the mystery moth we found. Thanks! So educational!!

3:30 this caterpillar be like: I have an offer for you

HAHAHAH HIS LITTLE FEET AS A CATERPILLAR. gosh. So cute.

That was wonderful! I came to this because I found one in my yard this morning and started doing some research!

Beautiful video creation ❤️ Thank you

They are so beautiful in the sunlight. Their patterns are stunning. Love their eyespots

I loved this presentation!!

This was really freaking cool. I've only ever seen one polyphemus moth in the wild out here in Ohio by the door to my apartment. I promptly turned around and went back to my car and waited for it to leave. lol I didn't want it following me inside.

Beautiful footage and close ups..great info. Thank you!!

Thank you for this. Beautiful

Awesome video Doug! Thank you!

Great video, thanks so much for posting. Watching this with my daughter.

Great video! I found a male poly moth on my garage floor a few days ago. I hope he finds a mate.

I found one last summer and today it finally emerged and it's a boy!! I love the butterfly and moth life cycle and the ending transformation is just amazing!

This was absolutely gorgeous and precious

Thank you so much for the amazing videos!

What a great video. I haven't seen a polyphemus moth around where I live in near 6 or so years. I found one in the rain being pestered by a crow in our grocery store parking lot. I got out the car and grabbed her up. She had some wounds and was very still but alive. I took her home and set her in a plastic tub. She laid eggs in it and very immediately passed. I plan on hatching the eggs and raising to release. I miss seeing them more frequently. Thank you for the video very informative.

This is one of the best videos on KZread

Awesome! Love this!😘❤️

What a wonderful video, thank you for sharing!

why am i watching this (when i have a fear of moths) again?

@sunnysander6204

2 жыл бұрын

I'm scared of moths too, but I find it more bearable when they're far away from me. All the beauty without the horror lol

Wow!! Look at those gorgeous wings! How cool

Beautiful video 🐛 thank you 🌸

LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!! Thank you for sharing that!!! That was REALLY NEAT!!!!

Hi, wonderful video! You did a great job with them, I'm in northern Michigan and found an adult Male in my yard on a tree, he was just stunning. I watched him for several hours.

Trully magnificent!

Thank you so much for sharing these videos there beautiful to watch.

All these videos are great

They’re so furry and adorable ❤️

This was BRILLIANT!! Really enjoyed watching this, thank you so much for filming then sharing it. I found a Polyphemus Moth a couple days ago on a piece of property we recently bought and I confess that while I liked ‘his’ bright green, I found his head less than attractive. 🤢 Kinda creepy, in fact. Fascinating, but creepy.😁 I watched him for a bit having to pick him up a couple times to reposition him to keep him from disappearing into the woods and I was quite surprised to discover how fragile he felt! I expected him to feel more along the lines of a gummy worm candy - solid like - but that wasn’t the case at all. He was very, very delicate and really needed to be handled carefully. I’m bummed now that I let him go on his way after watching your wonderful vid. I would have loved watching first hand his amazing metamorphosis. Hands down, nature/wildlife rocks!!

beautiful ... they are so beautiful, they really look like a leaf from afar, but their beauty just grows and grows and every time i look at them, i find someting more fascinating and beautiful

The Radiance xD What a beautiful video, thanks for sharing

So cute and fuzzy !!

It's my first time to see a caterpillar eating a leaves

wow this video was super relaxing and informative, what stunning creatures! thanks for the video

Another great video!!! Keep up the great work!! You got my sub!! 💙💚💙💚

Thank you, well done video. We found a caterpillar last fall.. I put him in our jar, thinking he would emerge as monarchs do. After research, we learned otherwise. All winter he stayed on our porch cocooned. Just when we all were giving up on him, he emerged! Actually, after viewing this video.. I believe we have a female. Excellent quick lesson you've provided for myself and 5yo :)

very pedagogic and great visual quality of the shots

For some strange reason, every time I see the hindwing eyespots on this particular species of moth, I'm always reminded of those contact lenses actor Michael Rooker was wearing for the scene where his character had turned before having to be put down, on that one notable AMC television series that everyone loves so much. I guess it's the sad-eyed expression look that is so similar.

Dude- I love your video. Me and my students found one on the black top today. She was so beautiful ❤️❤️❤️ First time any of us ever saw one.

I found one at work that was on the ground. He couldnt fly off but his wings didnt look injured. He was so cool i had to show all my coworkers and then took hin back outside by the fence to the grass

Stunning to watch.

wow, you are lucky! When I raised some IO moth caterpillars into adults, I was hope the two I had would be a male and female but they were both female, 😅. Its nice that you had a male and female.

Ours emerged this week here in central Texas. I sent your video to my neighbor who has a female on his front porch. Maybe he will raise a few.

They are really pretty and huge! I would totally deal if that was in my house. Thank you for a look at something I would never give a chance to in the wild. I am not a bug/insect/mite/etc enthusiast, but your channel may sway me on that.

I saw one of these today in my back yard among my compost pile mixed with some small branches, and I thought at first that it was turkey tail mushroom, then looked closer and found it was one of these! First time I've ever seen one, or even known of them.

lovely video

Thank you so much for the experience of watching this beautiful event.

These little guys look so fluffy… it’s really cute.

I had one of those. I watched the whole life cycle from Caterpillar to Moth in my house.

Their little feet are too adorable

Its so cool when they flash their "eyes" at you.

So cool!

They are gorgeous in every state 😍

nice

She so so cute moth😍🐛🦋

They look so soft!

I used to find their cocoons in the winter and then put them in the screen porch. When they emerged, the females would draw in males and mate through the screen. I had planted a sugar maple tree and gathered branches from it to feed the hatching eggs 1st instar larvae. I did this 1974-1982. Cranbrook Museum Nature Center put in a moth rearing cage in response to my successes. I was a long term volunteer there. I built clay models of the stages of development and won a prize in my Junior High Science fair two times, East Hills. I had created an insect collection and had perfect examples of this species from those i raised. One amazing thing happened, i forgot to put in new leaves for one brood and the catterpillars ate dried maple leaves that stunted their growth. A tiny cocoon was made and a Polyphemus moth with a 2" wingspan emerged! Even under great hardship they complete metamorphosis. I illustrated the moth and its stages for Cranbrook and they printed the drawings in ink on the museum signs to teach how the moth developes.

I was working in a town and saw one on the sidewalk, she had eggs and a chunk of her lower wing was pretty damaged. All i could do before work was put her in out little overgrown backyard under some leaves and hoped she had her eggs alright. I never saw the moths growing or anything but I like to think most of the moths made it.

A face only a mother could love 😅🤣🤣😂

@mr.quello5715

2 жыл бұрын

Haha that part is so funny!

I found one a few years ago. It was in its late caterpillar stage. It stayed in its pupa until the following January.

Me: GORGEOUS ALSO me: ewww

Смотрю на это превращение и от счастья плачу . Какое у вас доброе сердце . Здоровье вам .

CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

stunning

Anyone else think they look like small tarantulas with huge, and gorgeous, wings?!

Very nice video 👌👌 Thanks lot 🙏

Cool vid

Wonderful

so amazing and beautifulll

Bees and Moths, my fav. creatures :)

Amazing creatures indeed! What a process! The end results are worth it!

I just had one of these emerged today it's my first one of this type of moth. Usually I rear Eastern black swallowtail butterflies. However this one was found as a caterpillar and given to me by a friend last autumn.

amazing

2:29 that caterpillar looks like a cactus

What a cutie 😗💖

Beautiful creatures

Greetings from Toronto

Moths are usually pretty cute ive noticed they’re very fuzzy but the fuzz is like soft how you would expect a blanket to be it doesn’t even feel like a bug

good job

they’re beautiful. getting one of these tattooed on me in the near future, i can’t wait

Wonderful upload. Thank you. I will not look at a birch tree the same way again. I am trying to do the same thing with a wild amaranth species. I will wait for the winter phase and try to grow them indoors. I might have a salad out of the experiment.

I found one flapping around outside my apartment, by the lights. Scared the holy fkn hell out of me. I thought it was a bat. Then it landed on the mail boxes and I saw it was a moth. Then I snapped a photo of it and identified it. Then it led me here. 👍 I didn’t know these poor things only live for like 7 days. Hope the one I saw got laid beforehand. 👌

The caterpillars are cute

cool!

I wish these critters weren't so transitory, they're one of a kind

진짜 잘 봤어요 이헌 아름다운 영상을 만들어주샤서 대딘히 감사합니다~

i loved this video very much. Inever watched how catterpiller was breeded.Instead i have breeded once