Malaysia invaded by giant 6-inch moths

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27758640

These things used to give me nightmares as a kid. They are HUGE and scary, and when one landed on my head, I screamed for a good 10 minutes (I was 8 years old), running and crying and flailing around the apartment complex that we lived in that neighbors almost called the emergency number. Once my parents wanted to take us to a water theme park (our favorite). We were all dressed up and ready to go, and suddenly, my sister clung to my arm. We both decided we didn't want to go to the theme park anymore.

Why? There was a moth on the wall of the narrow hallway that we had to pass by to get to the lobby. My amused parents even walked near the moth to show us that it's nothing to be afraid of, but we wouldn't budge. They even offered to stand between us and the moth while we crossed, but nope. You couldn't convince us to walk that way at all. Eventually they gave up and we played cards at home instead.

And the moth never moved once.

Oh wow! They're beautiful!

About the only insects I'm not afraid of are lady bugs and moths or butterflies!  LOL

Wow, in pictures they are beautiful but I'd probably be nervous around them in person.  I wonder what caused this invasion?

A cat's dream come true! :lol3: They're pretty amazing creatures, but all I can imagine is cats trying to catch them. We've gotten quite a few (much smaller) moths inside the past week, and Mogli has been having a field day chasing them.

The face looks like something out of a sci-fi flick! 6 inches? I'd be gone so quickly it would make your head spin. I don't mind moths. In general. 6 inch moths? Gone. Gone. Gone.

Wow! I usually think moths are cute, but those moths are bigger than my birds! I can't imagine having one land on me and feeling each one of its legs. *shudders*

I do not like the tropics. For good reason :lol3:. Those are pretty moths, and I've had the monarch butterflies swarming in my yard and didn't mind (not in the past couple years though ). But if they flutter at your face. . .no I don't like that.

Aaaah, I thought I was going nuts when the above sci fi quote made something in my mind *click* as if I'd seen it before... I finally realized I was thinking of Godzilla's Mothra.