Hornet Moth
That’s a moth. No really. Look again, I’m serious.
In other news, when Julia Faelt says “I found a weird bug” she is not kidding around.
Julia thinks this might be Sesia apiformis, but Finland has about 14 species in genus Sesia so she’s not sure. The prefix api means bee or wasp, so apiformis here translates to “looks like a hornet”. All of the moths in Family Sesiidae tend to look more like bees or wasps, and Julia says that some of them even share the behaviors of bees and wasps. From this I conclude that Sesia must be latin for “holy freaking crap nobody is gonna believe this”.
Athena said,
March 31, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
That’s awesome!
And I can tell you’re (both) right because of the wings and the uh… ’shoulders’ and head. Pretty crazy. 
ZWarrior said,
April 1, 2008 @ 6:46 am
I know I would never had believed it if there wasn’t a picture. That is so cool!
Bill said,
April 1, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
If one of those things ever landed on me I think I might die outright of fright. Wow.