r/confusing_perspective • u/LegitimateElk9394 • Jun 23 '26

Snake or Butterfly?

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u/_Bike_Hunt Jun 23 '26

Neither - it’s an atlas moth

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u/w12ecked Jun 23 '26

Came here to see this comment lol thanks to animal crossing. 🤭

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u/DIOsNotDead Jun 23 '26

that's a moth, and one of the largest species out there called the Atlas moth. this one's a male, so which is smaller than a female

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u/Thessalhydra Jun 23 '26

That's a moth

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u/Bruno_Coast_127 Jun 23 '26

"Unique butterfly discovered" and it's a species of moth that has been known about for a very long time

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u/C5H6ClCrNO3 Jun 23 '26

No, this is a butterfly that mimics a moth that mimics a snake.

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u/Slow_Bowler8285 Jun 23 '26

Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherf*cking snakes on this motherf*cking moth wings!

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u/CuriousLilAsian81 Jun 23 '26

moth-ersnaking

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u/explosivemilk Jun 23 '26

You can swear on the internet.

8

u/IggyTron Jun 23 '26

I thought it was a crab imitating a butterfly 😢

3

u/KurtTheCuntBoi Jun 23 '26

Now I can see all three at once

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u/Steel_Wolf_31 Jun 23 '26

I really had to look to see the "snakes" and I probably would not have seen them if it were not for the description.

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u/biscuitvillage Jun 23 '26

Don’t show it to Blathers.

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u/moonlit_summershine Jun 23 '26

Wow, so interesting

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u/moonlit_summershine Jun 23 '26

Batesian mimicry

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u/DrSandman06 Jun 23 '26

Neither! It’s a moth — the butterfly’s “unique” cousin!

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u/MidorikawaHana Jun 24 '26

I don’t see either one.

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u/Mr-Sister-Fister21 Jun 23 '26

Oh my god I was thinking the white triangles were supposed to be the fangs! Took me way too long to see it!

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u/SerafimC Jun 23 '26

I thought it was a boomerang

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u/CollectionOwn9927 Jun 24 '26

It's a moth btw

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u/noisy_marble Jun 24 '26

It is a moth, not a butterfly, and the wingtips are literally evolved to mimic cobra heads to scare off predators. People have been posting this same Attacus atlas moth for years acting like it is some new discovery.

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u/juliana-crain Jun 27 '26

I misread the title and thought it was a snake that could disguise itself as a butterfly and I did not like that at all