It seems like a bit of a joke considering this moth purposefully looks like bird poop but indeed the common name for this species is "beautiful wood nymph." Scientifically, however, it is Eudryas ...

But Indiana may have a new poster-worthy species this year: A moth that looks like bird poop. The prairie tarachidia, also known as the Prairie Bird-Dropping moth, is one of several species the ...

Moths are incredibly good at mimicking other objects as a form of camouflage. Some species even mimic the appearance of bird poop. They look like an unappetizing splatter left on a leaf ...

Adam Skowronski/Flickr If it looks like poop…it actually ... Like the moth caterpillars, they use their black, brown and white coloration to hide from bird predators by resembling poop.

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It's a bird! No, it's a hummingbird hawk-moth! This fascinating creature looks like a hummingbird, but it's actually a moth. It even hovers in a way reminiscent of hummingbirds, with its wings ...

“I think [the moth] got attracted to the lights ... Papilio caterpillars look exactly like bird droppings in their initial instars, or larval phases, and “make uric acid to smell like poop ...

Animal survival lesson number one: Look like bird poop ... maintain the ruse even when it grows larger than average bird poop. The moth caterpillar, M. maxima, rests in a curled position ...

Just like hummingbirds ... the moths apart from hummingbirds are by the two long antennae coming out of their head, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. If you look closely ...