Sunday, October 21, 2007

atlas moth encounter

well, hello! this is my 1st posting for any blog as i am still a blockhead.

i had a recent encounter with an atlas moth, with its underside fully revealed to me as it was perched on the outside of a glass panel on the 12th floor of raffles hospital. as i exited the lift on the 12th floor, i was pleasantly surprised to see a huge moth on the other side of the ceiling to floor glass paneling on 12 sep 2007 at 1030 hrs. i took a photo of it with my camera phone, which is why the picture is not so good, and thought that it must be the beginning of the lunar month. moths usually emerge from the forests and fly towards light especially on moonless nights after the rain. true enough, when i checked the calendar later, i found out that it was the 2nd day of the lunar month so the moth must have flown out on the night of the 1st day of the lunar month and settled on the glass panel as there might have been light in the corridor. the glass panels overlook an inner courtyard within the hospital so the moth might have emerged from there too after metamorphosis.

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