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Spring Wings by *Garnet-43:iconGarnet-43:

Categories Photography > Animals, Plants & Nature > Invertebrates

©2007-2009 *Garnet-43
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It’s a moth, but I can’t identify it. Several of them were fluttering around my driveway when I ventured out for my walk today.

I detest nocturnal moths. I always have. To quote a poem I wrote when I was 13 years old:

“...But I don’t like the summer nights... It’s not because of gloom... It’s just when I turn on the lights....Moths get in the room...”

Although it’s fat, hairy body and tent-like wings sort of give me the creeps, I’ll forgive this one because of it’s beautiful orange splash, and because it’s not spastically dancing around a light. And because it patiently let me take a picture of it.

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*Fledgist Mar 28, 2007, 10:26:00 AM
That's a lovely pic. Spring seems to have reached Maine.

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As we grow older, we do not get any younger.
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*Garnet-43 Mar 28, 2007, 10:37:52 AM
Thanks! Indeed, it's nice to see moths, instead of snowflakes, flying around today!

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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
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*Fledgist Mar 28, 2007, 1:39:20 PM
I bet it is!

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As we grow older, we do not get any younger.
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~RejectFalseIcons Mar 28, 2007, 2:34:46 PM
you took a good picture here
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orange is my fav colour

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All of which makes me anxious, at times unbearably so
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*Garnet-43 Mar 28, 2007, 5:33:09 PM
Thanks! The longer it sat on the ground, the more it covered it's orange wings, so I had to shoot right when it landed.

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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
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~RejectFalseIcons Mar 28, 2007, 8:41:53 PM
nice work

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All of which makes me anxious, at times unbearably so
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*Garnet-43 Mar 29, 2007, 2:52:26 AM
Thanks!

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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
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*Spiralshaman Mar 29, 2007, 4:48:32 AM
fantastic shot - it looks like it may be a copper underwing to me :D

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Nothing lasts................. but nothing is lost.

""Nature is alive and talking to us, this is not a Metaphor"" Terence Mckenna

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Clarke's 3rd Law

*Ex-po-zure
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Mood: Joy *Rockonteddy Mar 29, 2007, 6:01:59 AM
Very kind of the moth, but it was probobly just to busy sunning itself to notice a apprehencive Garnet looming above :) .......... I am unable to name the type .......... but it looks like the "Stealth Bomber" of the moth world! :) ........
Pete

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Its the journey that counts..... but make your own footprints!
On the way......... dance naked :strip: ........ for life is very short! :nod: .......... :) .............
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