Talk:Death's-head Hawkmoth

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Please note that this article was moved from Death's head moth by copy-pasting the text, so the history of the page prior to June 20, 2005 resides at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death%27s_head_moth&action=history --Aramգուտանգ 18:08, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I have merged the histories now, everyting is in the history of this article now. --Sherool (talk) 07:49, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Pictures

According to the pictures, they are going to be deleted soon, if that is true, I have personal pictures I can use to replace the current ones. - Kugamazog

[edit] LUCK??

This article has been included in the category Luck. Is this right. I am not aware of any connection with luck --Viren 08:57, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted WOW reference

Deleted a worthless reference to WOW that wasn't sourced, in the wrong section, and a tenunous link at best 128.208.55.89 22:54, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Which species of moth was in "Silence of the Lambs" movie

This seems to be a little contentious; for purposes of clarification, the movie promotional posters showed Acherontia atropos, which would also be the species most likely to be imported, and is by far the most well-known. However, according to the script, the shipment of larvae was from "Suriname" - but none of the moths in this genus occur in Suriname, or even this hemisphere, so this is a problem in trusting the script. The actual moths used in the movie were not even this genus; they were hornworm moths altered with a magic marker to make the "skull head" on the thorax. The quote from the movie script, at the only time a species name is uttered, is Agent Starling, meet Mr. Acherontia styx - so there is yet another conflict involving the script - this time, conflicting with the posters. Given that the only actual identifiable images of the moth are of atropos, and the fact that all of the other folklore and cultural references in history refer to atropos, it seems far better to discuss the link to the movie under atropos rather than under styx. Dyanega 18:20, 27 September 2007 (UTC)