This is a male Atlas moth. They can have a wingspan of a foot (wingtip to wingtip). The females will emerge from their cocoon and attract a mate using pheromones. Males will track down a waiting female using their feather-like antenna as amazing and selective radar. They will mate and the female will then fly off to lay over 100 eggs on various trees in tropical Asia, where it is from. When at rest, the elongated wingtips would stick out from foliage and give the appearance of a snake. In case t

A video of an unrealistically large moth that was posted on Twitter by Tansu Yegen has confused internet users because it shows a giant-sized moth latching onto the hand of a person. Scores of netizens wanted to know if the video was genuine or fake. Tansu Yegen wrote, "The atlas butterfly, seen in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Malaysia, is the largest known butterfly in the world with a wingspan of 30 centimeters. The wing surface of the butterfly, decorated with the figure of a cobra snake, reaches

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