*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 8:56am PST - promote requested by lurgee.

Ha, it's fake look at the... oh my god it's moving! Holy shit, it's real!

Damn, that thing would scare me half to death if I saw it flying towards me. Beautiful, but scary.

Her wing-tips look like two opposing toucans and the white markings on the wings like heads of birds grouped facing outwards. Message to predators, "There's a shit-load of beak if you order this meal."

I used to keep silk worms and moths.

*wings

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boy, that would make a hell of a splat on the windshield...

This thing eats sweaters whole for brunch.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Attacus atlas, butterfly, female' to 'Attacus atlas, atlas moth, snakes head mouth, female' - edited by xxovercastxx

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Attacus atlas, atlas moth, snakes head mouth, female' to 'Attacus atlas, atlas moth, snakes head moth, female' - edited by xxovercastxx

I immediately looked this up on Wikipedia, as I tend to do, and learned that they call it the "snake's head moth" in Hong Kong. Check out those upper wing corners... they look eerily like snake heads in profile.

*nature

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Hideously beautiful..