I have spent the last 4 hours attempting to identify a moth I discovered. I have viewed pictures of these critters all night from various entomological (sp?) sites with no close match. I have very detailed digital photographs of it. It was quite unique and very large.
What shall I do?
2006-07-28 20:37:17 · 5 answers · asked by managuense 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Ok thanks! FOund it on whatsthisbug.com. I didn't discover squat. It is a female polyphemus moth, which they have chosen as july 06 Bug of the month!. You can see a great picture of it there. For reference it was incredible. I have never seen a 6" wingspan bug before. I am sad that they only live to mate, and by now, a day later, my friend, the moth, is probably dead.
2006-07-28 21:04:25 · update #1
http://www.whatsthatbug.com
did you try it?
If you post it up on the internet it would be much easier for us to identify it!
2006-07-28 20:41:01 · answer #1 · answered by ♪ ♫ ☮ NYbron ☮ ♪ ♫ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Can we see the pictures?? Maybe then someone on here can help you identify it or tell you it is a new species..... You can put your photos on http://www.photobucket.com/ it is a free image hosting site you can sign up and put your pictures on there and then provide a link to the picture from here so other people can see the moth and maybe help you out. Other than that I dont know what you can do..but there are several entymologists on here and they can probably help if they saw a picture.
I am going to throw a wild guess out though as to what the moth was even though you gave no description... Luna Moth... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_Moth
2006-07-29 04:09:07 · answer #2 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest e-mailing a zoologist/entomologist/whoever about your moth dilemma and asking them if they can send you a list of pictures/websites with pictures/descriptions of every moth known to man (if that's possible Lol). If you still can't find it, I would clearly have it copyrighted and have it named whatever you want because it's obviously a new species...that is, if no one else has discovered it yet but it hasn't been announced/published.
2006-07-29 03:55:35 · answer #3 · answered by i_hate_subway 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if u think u have discoverted something really new . go to the site of entomological research institute of your home country or report it with pictures to Madison Entomology Department
Insect Research Collection (http://www.entomology.wisc.edu/irc/ircpage.html)
or find relevant information at http://www.insectclopedia.com/
2006-07-29 03:46:12 · answer #4 · answered by saurabh k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
contact a local university insect boffins and see if it's just a different coloured common one
2006-07-29 03:42:56 · answer #5 · answered by Kalahari_Surfer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋