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[kiunlo]

sooo i saw two new buggies today!!!! and with the help of the aussie lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) website that @mysticmothworld showed me the last time i was trying to identify a bunch of moths, I think i may have actually identified these bugs correctly! i think!! i hope!!

The first bug is a big ass butterfly called the Papilio Aegus, which I'm like 98% sure is the correct identification because the only other butterfly that looks similar is the Papilio Anactus which is just. like. way too small based on images I saw of people holding the butterfly. and according to wikipedia the Papilio Aegus can have a wingspan of 4.7 inches if male and like 5.5 inches if female, which is a big ass butterfly, and the butterfly i saw was indeed a big ass butterfly, so i think it's correct. also apparently the males and females look different? which most likely makes the above butterfly a female. super awesome!!!

the second bug is one i am less sure of, but i've not found a better identification for it, and it is called a Cephonodes Australis. As I type this the moth is still right outside my window and I was able to get a VERY close up look with just my eyeballs, and having looked through a crap ton of moth photos, both of the Cephonodes Australis and other moths, I think this might be the correct identification. The picture above is a screenshot from a video I took, and looking through the other frames, I believe the wings are clear, which matches the identification of the Cephonodes Australis, as well as the green on the top, the yellow underneath, the white stripes, and the VERY dark red (basically almost black) stripe on the body. I also watched the moth in flight and saw it's weird little lobster tail change from being very wide to very thin, constantly changing the shape and angle of the tail and i thought that was SO cool. probably uses it's tail like a rudder or something! idk how flight works though because i'm a human and don't have wings LMAO. I'm only like 78% sure that this is the right moth, but I really don't have any other options so I think this is probably right. anyways. I like to identify moths and butterflies now! not just birds! but i do still love birds! i just didn't know we had such a big variety of moths and stuff and these silly little guys enamor me so much.