Moth or Butterfly?🦋🔍

This strange looking "moth" made a weird appearance in my backyard a few weeks back while my youngest son was with me, and I had never seen such a creature as this before.

It kept fluttering around me and landing at my feet for some reason and luckily, I had my phone in my pocket, as we were getting ready to dump my old armchairs (which I bought when I moved out during my divorce) at the dump, as the springs were going in them, plus my son had moved in and bought his leather couch with him.

One of my old armchairs in the council dump

We were both amazed by this creature, like it was trying to tell us something, and I turned to him and said, "have you ever seen such a moth?" and he said, "that's a butterfly" and I said "no, it's not a butterfly, it's a moth", to which he said "no, it's a butterfly".

And this went back and forth between us for a while with neither of us convincing one another.

So, I told him I would look it up on the net when we come home from the dump runs.

Moth Verses Butterfly Symbolism

Trouble is I found out that there are about 3,600 different types of moths in our home state of Queensland and the closest I could find was this moth below.

Which doesn't look like the same moth to me.

I had already had a weird moth encounter, of a moth I couldn't identify in this recent post -

The World Card of the Lumina deck

Opening PANDORA's Box?🃏🪔💡🦁 🏆

I'm sure there was a message here for us somewhere, but it may have flown over our heads that day?
The next day I saw a small red dragonfly in the backyard, but I didn't have my phone with me to snap a picture of it to show my son.

Maybe he is more of a butterfly person, like his mother and I'm more of a moth and dragonfly person?-)

There's That Butterfly Again? 🦋🎄🎅

Dragonfly/Butterfly

David Attenborough, The Wild Man (2016)
: 60 Minutes Australia

A flashback to May 8, 2019

MATE DAY (MAY 8) 2024?🌏🤠