He/she was just sleeping there while I was watering the plants - didn't move at all. Excellent camouflage - I was watering the cactus for quite a time before I noticed the moth/butterfly.

Hmm, OK let's try again with the pictures:

Beautiful pics Jetset

It's a Hawk Moth..

latin name is Daphnis hypothous - check this page out...

That camera of yours takes superb macro shots !

Very nice!

It sure does! Great pictures.

I've always thought it was the Hawk moth but was never sure. I've got loads of plant books but no bug, snake, or bird books. Guess those should be next

Beautiful pics Jetset

It's a Hawk Moth..

latin name is Daphnis hypothous - check this page out...

That camera of yours takes superb macro shots !

Thanks Goshawk - I knew you'd know what it was!

My d@mn camera is playing up - the view screen is going intermittently blank. Last night it was permanently blank. So it was a real pain trying to get a good picture with nothing to see! The settings I finally settled on were: flash on (it was pitch black outside), macro function on, exposure down to the absolute minimum, and then used the auto-focus red light to help me point it in the right direction. It wasn't until I'd downloaded them to the PC that I saw what great pictures I had.

It was a real pain in more than one way - that cactus is really spiky! Ouch!

Thanks Goshawk - I knew you'd know what it was!

immediatley recognised it as one of the Hawk Moth's (there's dozens of em) but had to dig around a bit to nail the exact one..

keep a look out for this one too on a eve..

as featured in 'The Silence of the Lambs' - the 'Death's Head'

Occurs in Thailand, though i've never seen one..

Wonderful pictures of a beautiful moth. Thank you for sharing.

What a great forum. I have so many questions about different animals and insects of Thailand. Maybe someone could help me.

Goshawk, you seem to be well up on moths and insects. Maybe you could identify these for me? (or anyone else of course). I saw them in Samut Prakarn. I would like to put the photos on my h.p. It would be nice if I could name them.

Also, this fellow flew into my apartment yesterday (the bird) My guess is that it is a Sun Parakeet. I do not think it's a native to Thailand. Could someone please confirm this?

One more question for today. I have been searching for stick and leaf insects (the big ones) Anyone know where and when they can be seen?

Thanks for all info. I will be back with questions about snakes that I have met here in Thailand.

Oooops, what happened to the pics? I put them in as attachments but don't see them

You need to go and add them into the post by clicking on the little green button next to the attachment name in the drop down box at the bottom of your post.

Go ahead and start a new post and try again

Actually the OPs moth is Daphnis nerii (female, I think).

D. hypothous has a white spot at the very tip of the forewings.

Edited February 1, 200917 yr by phaethon

Actually the OPs moth is Daphnis nerii

hey.. you're right, so it is. nice work..

hm, OK I try again. Wish me luck Repeat of my last message.

What a great forum. I have so many questions about different animals and insects of Thailand. Maybe someone could help me.

Goshawk, you seem to be well up on moths and insects. Maybe you could identify these for me? (or anyone else of course). I saw them in Samut Prakarn. I would like to put the photos on my h.p. It would be nice if I could name them.

Also, this fellow flew into my apartment yesterday (the bird) My guess is that it is a Sun Parakeet. I do not think it's a native to Thailand. Could someone please confirm this?

One more question for today. I have been searching for stick and leaf insects (the big ones) Anyone know where and when they can be seen?

Thanks for all info. I will be back with questions about snakes that I have met here in Thailand.

I selected the files, waited until each one uploaded. I can see them in "Manage Current Attachments (6)"

The file sizes are ca. 1.7 MB each. It says I can upload up to 20MB so I must be within the limit.

One difference on my screen to the screen shot "sbk" sent, my Manage Current Attachments window is on the left. Does this have anything to do with me using "mac"?

Also, this fellow flew into my apartment yesterday (the bird) My guess is that it is a Sun Parakeet. I do not think it's a native to Thailand. Could someone please confirm this?

correct, not native.. did u manage to catch it ?

Great pics!

Cute bird, but his talons scare me...

TheWalkingMan

hm, OK I try again. Wish me luck Repeat of my last message.

What a great forum. I have so many questions about different animals and insects of Thailand. Maybe someone could help me....

This one is a long-horned borer beetle - don't know exactly which species. It strips the outer layer of fresh growth, the new branch dies and eventually so does the tree.

Whatever you do, don't ignore it! Kill it and it's mates and every other one you can find. Probably a good idea to get someone in to spray whatever tree it's on, but it may be too late already. These b*ggers have killed a couple of my big, old trees. I hate them with a vengeance!

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Edited February 2, 200917 yr by JetsetBkk

The Lepidoptera:

1 & 4: v. difficult as there a several similar species but the dorsal stripe and head/thorax spots suggest Blue Tiger Butterfly Tirumala limniace for 1 and the upper of the two in 4. The lower one on 4 looks more like Chilasa clytia, the Common Mime

2: Black Banded wasp moth Euchromia polymena (aka E. elegantissima)

3: Common tiger Danaus genutia

Well, google led me to this old thread…

The beetle of without doubt Aristobia approximator. This Cerambycid or longhorn beetle is common throughout Thailand and called ด้วงหนวดปมจุดเหลืองดำ in Thai.

As for butterfly #1 I do not quite agree with phaeton: I think it is Ideopsis vulgaris, while #4 is (as phaeton suggests) Tirumala limniace. I am, however, not a specialist on butterflies..

Erwin