This is from the "small" part.  I witnessed a moth emerging from it's cocoon on Monday.  The catepillars craw around and find a place to make their cocoon, the must survice the ant attacks and finally wiggle their way out of the cocoon, only to live about a week.  These are quite attractive with blue bodies, light blue-gray wings and an orange head with black eyes.

My crappy little cell phone camera hardly does anything any justice.

Those are great pix. Maybe you can help me identify this bug, I haven't been able to yet.

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 I hate insects!  That one big one looks like it could be a large locust or cicada....geez we have huge mutant bugs here in the swamp and I scream like a girl when  they get near me!

Aw Mary Beth, it is just a little moth about a half inch long.  Maybe I'm just weird, but things like this fascinate me.  The adult moth of this species is very attractive.  I've spent hours researching theae little critters, but have yet to identify it.  The first pic was just as it was emerging from it's cocoon.  At first I thought a wasp or spider was attacking it until I realized it was just itself pulling free of it's last home to take wing and freely roam the skies, until a bird or windsheild gets in it's way.

Yeah, we got some big ones here too, it's those roaches the size of a buick the "bug" me, you can hear them shuffling around in the dark sometimes, now there's a real Eeeich!  And NO, we don't share our home with them, just a bunch of little pea sized moths that come in at night when we've got the door open (so Ratty can go and come as he pleases)  which we don't do now 'cause Little Missy Cameo will go and we can't have her not coming back-it is 100% supervison for her right now.

It's OK to scream like a girl if you're a female, isn't it?  It's the guys screaming like girls that get me