A Monster Moth So Heavy Can’t Fly

 

Spotted In Australia: A Monster Moth So Heavy That It Can't Fly

A giant moth — so big and so heavy that it struggled to fly — was found at an Australian school on Monday. Builders found the giant wood moth while constructing new classrooms at Queensland’s Mount Cotton state school, reports The Guardian

The moth was described as being about as big as a rat..

The school shared photos of the giant wood moth on Facebook, where they generated a huge interest and registered hundreds of ‘likes’, comments and shares.”They fly very, very poorly. In most cases when they emerge, the females, they just crawl up a local tree or stump of a fence post and sit there and wait for males to find them,” Dr Lambkin said.

The females, about twice the size of the males, can weigh up to 30 grams and boasts a wingspan of up to 25 centimetres.

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