{"id":242660,"date":"2021-05-05T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/giant-moth-so-chunky-it-struggles-to-fly-discovered\/"},"modified":"2021-05-05T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:29:21","slug":"giant-moth-so-chunky-it-struggles-to-fly-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/giant-moth-so-chunky-it-struggles-to-fly-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"#Giant moth so chunky it struggles to fly discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Giant moth so chunky it struggles to fly discovered<\/strong>”
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Mothra surfaces in Australia. <\/p>\n

An Australian worker realized every entomophobe\u2019s worst nightmare after encountering a moth so huge that it struggled to fly.<\/p>\n

The Mount Cotton State School in Queensland, where Mothra was discovered, shared a Facebook photo Sunday<\/a> of the behemoth bug on the end of a saw blade.<\/p>\n

It was reportedly the \u201csize of two fists put together\u201d according to the school\u2019s principal, Meagan Steward, who said the mondo moth was released into the woods unharmed. <\/p>\n

Queensland Museum entomologist Dr. Christine Lambkin has since identified the animatronic-evoking creature as a \u201cwood moth,\u201d a species that reportedly resides all along the Eastern coast of Australia. While not exceedingly rare, this chonky critter is not commonly sighted in the country, Lambkin told the Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s certainly not because it\u2019s too small to spot. With a maximum weight of just over an ounce, the female wood moth frequently struggles to achieve liftoff \u2014 despite boasting a whopping 9-inch wingspan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey fly very, very poorly,\u201d said Lambkin. \u201cIn most cases, when the females emerge, they just crawl up a tree or stump of a fence post and wait for the males to find them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Needless to say, fans on the Mount Cotton State School Facebook<\/a> page were awestruck by the colossal creepy-crawly. <\/p>\n

\u201cLove it! Never leaving the windows open ever again though,\u201d wrote one aghast gawker.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll just add it to the list of wildlife\u2026.wallabies, owls, snakes, echidnas, giant moth,\u201d wrote another of Australia\u2019s infamous plethora of unusual creatures. \u201cLife is never dull at MCSS!\u201d<\/p>\n

One jokester quipped, \u201cHow cool. Gotta say if it flew near me while I was gardening I would probably do a karate freakout!\u201d<\/p>\n

Thankfully, wood moths don\u2019t pose a threat to humans. Perhaps it could even help relieve this extra-shaggy Australian sheep of its 77 pounds of matted wool.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Giant moth so chunky it struggles to fly discovered” Mothra surfaces in Australia. An Australian worker realized every entomophobe\u2019s worst nightmare after encountering a moth so huge that it struggled to fly. The Mount Cotton State School in Queensland, where Mothra was discovered, shared a Facebook photo Sunday of the behemoth bug on the end…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/australia-moth.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[104531,71595,20358,76511,64690],"class_list":["post-242660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-5-21","tag-animals","tag-australia","tag-discovery","tag-insects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}