Does anyone know? I went through photos of about 300 insects that live in New york and nothing quite matches this fella with its heart shaped antenna...it had little like fangs coming out of its mouth...It almost matched fish fly, dobson fly, but not quite. I found it in my cat's water bowl and thought it was dead. It was just floating there, and it alarmed me as it is quite large. i gently swooped it up, and it showed signs of life...wiped away water from its face with front legs....and resting. Its wings are badly mangled...probably from one of my cats...but it hung onto me for dear life....and looked at me with those big fly eyes...communicating. I sat with it for about 5 minutes and then gently put it on a cushion outside...... You can talk about any insect on this thread, as well...so this thread is for insects and bugs., but this character was pretty awesome...probably could have bit me or poisoned me, too.....I was not afraid of it....silent, caring communication, i saved its life...what is left of it...
My first thought would be some type of water bug (no pun intended) which would naturally be drawn to water, but I’m not positive. Hotwater
i'm not good at this, but it looks kind of like a very old moth that's kind of probably won't live much longer if its even still alive.
Sure is beautiful! Hope this might help in some way!. I love bugs! http://www.amentsoc.org/insects/what-bug-is-this/adult-key.html
Thank you,Morrow! I will read what you have posted, as ineed to know now. This insect/bug is BEAUTIFUL! It was still on the cushion where I left it overnight, and alert, so I walked it to the bank of the creek in case it is a water bug of some kind. As we walking, it tried to flap its wings...the sound of the running creek seemed to electrify it, but it couldn't. Its wings are mangled. I put it in the upper valley part of a tree and its big branch near the creek on a bed of moss that is growing there, with leaves, and it looked like a smaller bug was crawling around there....or two,,,,It did not really want to leave the back of my hand anywhere...but I nudged it off gently onto the moss in the valley of this tree and it seemed to be using its feeler mouth in the moss there, when I left it there.. I felt so connected to this creature. It is so beautiful and so sweet. the fact that its antenna joins in a heart circle is nothing I have ever seen before. i have fallen in love with this a bug...i really have.... I want it to live, but am afraid it will not be able to do what it needs to do to live out its life with the magled wings on its back....
I am crying. I love that winged creature so much. Some things just get into your heart so much. I will check on it a little later, and let you know what i see, if it is still there. It is warm outside, but might rain. It has been 70 degrees yesterday and today.....I have no idea how the big winged creature got into my house...unless it flew in when someone opened the door unnoticed, or a cat brought it in earlier..is my only guess about that. Anyway, please share any stories you have about bugs or insects here, too. They belong to such an awesome world.....and are amazing once you start really looking at them. I will look at all of them with fresh new eyes from now on, too.
OK, I have narrowed what this is to 3..... Dobsonfly...same patterned wings fishfly....can hold its antennas in different circles and things similar wings giant stonefly...would account for the yellow coloring in its body I have looked at many photos of these 3 species, and it is definitely one of them...i will read more about each a little later...but somehow dobsonfly keeps in my head...as for the wing markings. I think they can all hold their antennae in different patterns.... I checked on this creature, and it could still climb, so I think it either climbed the tree or is on the side of the bark somewhere, as i did not see it anymore. He could have dropped down into the leaves or got eaten by another creature. i don't know...but he is gone now. i hope he is ok. take a look at these insects.....the weirdness of some of them.....like the hag moth and the beauty of the rosy moth....My gosh....what a variety of different beings.... http://www.insectidentification.org/insects-by-state.asp?thisState=New%20York
