Found a Big Moth (about 6 inches across) hanging on the wall. I made the mistake with the previous one of trying to catch hold it to let it out of the window. Unfortunately that didn't work as its wings totally disintegrated upon my touch. So this time I left this one alone. The far distance in the photo is actually the ceiling as I have rotated the photo.
I had been reading up on photos for web use and for print use. It seemed to boil down to the dpi (dots per inch) basically. The photos in the previous postings were just quickly downsized in "Paint". This time the image was resized to 72 dpi and 640 x 480 before being uploaded to Blogger.
The wonder of the internet allowed me to find out what type of moth it was. It was a
Lyssa Zampa, quite common in South East Asia.
It was more than 6 inches across. The last one was on the wall near the ceiling so I couldn't get a good angle for photos. This one rested on the fridge and then on the floor; so more photogenic.
They are big but very fragile. One heavy touch and the wings crumble to dust.
I used flash for all the photos. So the usual "red-eye" effect was there. Another website Habitatnews said that as these moths were seasonal and coincided with "the month of the hungry ghosts", some chinese believed that these were the ghosts of their ancestors coming back to check up on them!
