Spotted outside an Offaly window. Could anyone tell me what the hell this humongous insect was?

43 comments

1. A moth

2. It’s a moth. Some of them are nearly as big as a wren

3. That’s Mothman, your house has been marked. Best just to burn it down now.

4. A moth, my worst nightmare I’m absolutely terrified of them.

5. Local FG TD looking for votes….

6. could be elephant hawk moth, big and beautiful

7. Flying rat

8. That’s the devil out to get you.

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10. It’s too late to ask questions. Burn it all down and escape..
    Good luck.

11. Well?!? Don’t be shy! Let the poor thing in, it’s probably nackard from its trip. Put the kettle on for it!

12. 

13. Hawk-moth

14. Mothra… definitely mothra…

15. Used to work night shifts at a factory, from time to time I’d find these massive moths hanging around. Like ones that actually make you panic a bit because you didn’t know they could be that size. They’re absolutely harmless though and sometimes let you pick them up

16. Love how people are scared of moths ,theyre just nighttime butterflies lol almost all of them dont even have mouth parts and dont feed

17. Satan?

18. Its a Hawk Moth

19. Is this a pediatrist’s office by any chance? If so, be careful… that moth is troubled, man

20. Tiger moth, I’d say.

21. Well…Time to nuke Offaly, sorry OP

22. Turn off the light and you might find out..

23. It might be the same one near cracked my bathroom window in Fermanagh last week..

24. Humming bat?

25. An owl or an Albatross probably a pterodactyl.
    Heavy weapons or a Jurassic world actor my be needed….

26. Some sort of hawk moth. I used to get death’s head hawkmoth’s in my old house. They’re big and have a skull like marking on them. They can also squeak like a mouse which is pretty jarring if you don’t know about it.

27. Mothra.

28. 

    It’s starting

29. That aint a moth, Thats a MOTH.

30. It’s one of those giant moths, they’re the size of rats

    Google image them

31. Also, if they’re so mad about light, why do they only come out at night? Dickheads.

32. That would be a [moth](https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.651791814.8160/flat,750x,075,f-pad,750×1000,f8f8f8.u2.jpg)

33. It’s a moth, they are nocturnal butterflies. Totally harmless, unless you lend them money. Then they just keep asking for more and never leave.

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35. Moth heard you had lamp. He’s there for that and your kneecaps.

36. it’s a demigorgon

37. Definitely a moth, a very big moth.
    When we’d go to my see my aunty in the countryside when we were kids I was always fascinated with the giant moths they’d get outside the back door at night. She’d save up coffee and pasta jars and poke holes in the lids so I could bring them home to show my friends who didn’t believe there was such thing as giant moths, well I showed them! 😂
    They just about fit into the jars they were that big.
    My uncle released them because it was cruel to keep them in jars, I cried for days.

38. Tv Licence inspector. Attracted to the glare of the tv screen.

39. I had a bastard moth get into my kitchen.. every time I went near the sink I could hear this demonic *hissssssssssss* and it had me looking at the lights and sockets thinking I was about to go up in flames.

    It was one of these big bollocks.. it took 5 slaps from a newspaper for the cunt to finally stop moving. Mother of god I thought it was going to eat me

    Edit: this was about 2 weeks ago and, same as you, I had never seen one this size before. He was about the size of the palm of my hand

40. The Tv licence inspector can take many shapes and forms !

41. Not sure but that looks Offaly big

42. Remind me to never go to Offaly again

43. That’s an Offaly big moth