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Was unsure where this topic would qualify so I just put it here. Found a weird butterfly thing and was wondering if anyone knew what it was or anything about it.... or if it's even a butterfly.



I wanna set it free but don't wanna if it's something poisonous. Any info would be great.

Sorry if the thread is in the wrong place.

 

poisonous butterflies don't real.

 

It looks more like a moth...but the picture's kinda blurry, does it look like this?

 

Looks like something that'll eat your brain. O.o

I'm sure it's perfectly harmless. ^^

 

Yeah, there's no harmful butterflies in our area.
The only other thing it could be is a Gypsy moth, but yours doesn't look as...fuzzy.

 

Eat it .

 

There's a large praying mantis outside our door.

 

[highlight]Release it, run like hell?[/highlight]​

 

My brother finally woke up about 30 min after I caught it and he put it in the neighbors butteryfly bush.

DP - sorry if it was blurry but I used my phone cuz I don't have a camera and it was in a container. It sorta looks like the two pics combined without the orange.

 

Is it weird that I think that looks like a really comfy fleece blanket?

 

It's a poisonous butterfly. Kill it.

 

Woah wtf? How big are the butterflies in these pics? They look like the size of a cat.

 

Poisonous!? Are you serious or just kidding cuz it's not cool to kid about that. The things was in my room.

 

Lol, I don't know what Im talking about. Just jokin', just jokin'.

 

You better be wrong cuz I don't wanna have to deal with some poisonous butterfly being in the area.

 

Butterflies, even if poisonous, don't have enough toxin to kill humans (or even large animals).
Plus we don't have that type of butterfly in our area, so no worries.

 

I worry about things more than I probably should. It might've even been a butterfly. It could've been a not so fuzzy moth with different coloring sort of like the other pic you posted.

 

^This^

If I have the right impression on where you live (US, Midwest?) there aren't enough predators for poisonous butterflies to have been "chosen" by natural selection. The production of such a toxin would take just enough energy that it just wouldn't be efficient. You've nothing to worry about.

 

No...she's not in the Midwest.
And even then, toxins produced by most butterflies don't kill, just make whatever eats it very sick, most of the time the toxin comes from the plants the catepillar larvae feed on.

 

Exactly. As I said, the butterfly producing the toxin itself would cost too much energy.