# What's this moth? (Or, cute fuzzy moth pics) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 4, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-moth-or-cute-fuzzy-moth-pics/591514 "2011-08-04T22:42:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-moth-or-cute-fuzzy-moth-pics/591514/1 "2011-08-04T22:42:01Z")
Any ideas what [this](http://i52.tinypic.com/26449b4.jpg) is? [Other, less cute, angle.](http://i56.tinypic.com/2yjy8aw.jpg) It landed on my hand in Dorset (southern England) at the weekend, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a moth so furry. Google Image search only found one pic that looked similar, and it was helpfully labelled [fuzzy moth](http://idesigniphone.com/fuzzy-moth). ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-moth-or-cute-fuzzy-moth-pics/591514/2 "2011-08-05T00:33:51Z")
There is actually a Dorset Moth Group, and it looks like some of the moths on their [Lasiocampidae\* page](http://www.dorsetmothgroup.org.uk/M%20of%20D/1631-1642.htm), judging by the antenna and “nose”, but I can’t tell which one. - Lasiocampidae is a family of moth with 2000 species, part of their mouth makes it look like they have a nose. (I know nothing about moths, I just learned that) ---
**Author:** ![zephyr9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9fc348/32.png) [@zephyr9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyr9)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-moth-or-cute-fuzzy-moth-pics/591514/3 "2011-08-05T03:13:21Z")
I don’t know, but it’s gorgeous. Love moths! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-moth-or-cute-fuzzy-moth-pics/591514/4 "2011-08-05T06:02:26Z")
I opened this thread just to see what in the hell a “cute moth” could be. Moths are, around here, ugly creatures. That is, indeed, one cute moth. Never would have believed it if I didn’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-moth-or-cute-fuzzy-moth-pics/591514/5 "2011-08-05T10:25:50Z")
Good link, **Fubaya**. It looks to me like a [drinker](http://www.biopix.com/photo.asp?photoid=3550&photo=euthrix-potatoria). They’re supposedly “quite common” in southern England, but I’ve never seen one before. Glad others find it cute, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-moth-or-cute-fuzzy-moth-pics/591514/6 "2011-08-05T10:28:01Z")
Who’s a fuzzy wuzzy moth? You are! Yes you are! Oh yes! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-moth-or-cute-fuzzy-moth-pics/591514/7 "2011-08-05T17:23:42Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Good link, **Fubaya**. It looks to me like a [drinker](http://www.biopix.com/photo.asp?photoid=3550&photo=euthrix-potatoria). They’re supposedly “quite common” in southern England, but I’ve never seen one before. Glad others find it cute, too. 🙂 Even the way it sits is adorable, just chilling with one leg hanging down. I want one! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-moth-or-cute-fuzzy-moth-pics/591514/8 "2011-08-05T17:28:39Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Even the way it sits is adorable, just chilling with one leg hanging down. I want one! They’re pretty friendly, too. The one in my pics just came and sat on my hand for a few minutes and didn’t want to leave. Of course, now I know it was a drinker moth that makes sense, as I was sat outside my tent with a beer at the time. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-moth-or-cute-fuzzy-moth-pics/591514/9 "2011-08-07T01:50:38Z")
Looks like Gandalf’s moth. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-moth-or-cute-fuzzy-moth-pics/591514/10 "2011-08-07T02:32:00Z")
I saw your cute fuzzy moth’s much larger American cousin this afternoon. The wings were about three inches across (apiece), and the body was much less fuzzy. The words which came to mind to describe it were much more in the “cool” and “fascinating” rather than “cute” family, and it must be admitted that I was not at all unhappy about the thick pane of glass in between us. I wasn’t afraid of it, exactly, just happy that it was likely to stay where it was–outside the building I was in. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-moth-or-cute-fuzzy-moth-pics/591514/11 "2011-08-07T05:13:38Z")
What an adorable little guy! If I named the species, it would forever be the Teddy Bear moth!