Second post in the macro part of this forum

[Blue tit photo]

I found this butterfly while I was gardening it looks pretty stunning, so check it out.

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[Andrew Lamberson]

That is one weird-looking critter! A leg growing out of its eye? the antennae look metallic. You don't live close to a nuclear plant by chance, do you???

 

[aolander]

Beautiful colors on the moth.

 

[Blue tit photo]

That is one weird-looking critter! A leg growing out of its eye? the antennae look metallic. You don't live close to a nuclear plant by chance, do you???

Nope, luckily or sadly? It depends, but the leg is growing from a tad below the eye, ad antennas are very white in real life and branched because this butterfly is more of a night creature

 

[Woody Meristem]

That's almost certainly a tiger moth, if you found it in northeastern North America I'd say it was a great tiger moth (Arctia caja)

 

[Niels.hr.Hansen]

To me Tiger moth is a 1930 British fighter air-craft
Nice shots. I find i easier to work on a dead critter - it doesn't fly away in the middle of the shot - but I also only shoot dead critters when they have passed away by themselves

 

[Blue tit photo]

That's almost certainly a tiger moth, if you found it in northeastern North America I'd say it was a great tiger moth (Arctia caja)

You are indeed correct. Though I found it in Eastern Europe, in Lithuania. Thanks for the knowledge.