death's-head moth
Thorax bears skull
A death's-head moth is a large hawkmoth with skull-shaped markings on its thorax.
Three species exist, all capable of producing a squeaking sound when disturbed.
The moth's ominous appearance has made it a symbol of death in folklore and fiction: A death's-head moth landed on the windowsill, and she took it as an ill omen.
- skullHead's bone casing
- Silence of the LambsThriller about catching serial killers
- Buffalo BillScout turned showman
- horror movieCinema meant to terrify
- hawkmothLarge hovering lepidopteran
nocturnal · night flying · wings · thorax · markings · eerie · omen · macabre · squeaking · honey · beehive · caterpillar · creepy crawly · nightshade · chrysalis · antennae · flutter · darkness
- Lepidopterabutterflies, monarch, cocoons, chrysalis, swallowtail
- mothshawkmoth, brocades, underwing, underwings
- night insectsfirefly, mosquito, gnat, lightning bug, crane fly
- hawk mothshawkmoth
- nocturnal flyersbat, owl, nightjar, nighthawk, barn owl
lepidopteran type
death's-head mothbutterfly
Winged insect from caterpillar
monarch butterfly · swallowtail butterfly · painted lady · luna moth · skipper
death, dead, deadly, deaden, deadened, deadening, deathly, deathlike, deaths