What the bloody hell is this creature in my outhouse?? [pic]

[CountryMummy1]

Just been outside the feed the cat who has his food in the outhouse. There, hanging from the old pipework are 3 absolutely huge cocoons. They are hideous! Black and more than 4 inches long. They weren't there yesterday. What the hell is going to come out? AIBU to be very worried?

Op hope dd appt goes well. Look forward to your update. Really not worried how close you are to me...no not at all!!

Leave it alone. It's fantastic. Probably the cocoon of a large moth, like a poplar hawk. Awesome. It's doing you no harm and won't do when it hatches.

Live and let live.

I still don't think its "alive"-alive. We have quite a few hawkmoths round this way and I've never seen anything quite like that. Especially with the mold / black dust around it. My money is still on a fungus!

I really hope it's a lovely moth and you can somehow get a photo when it hatches but before it flies away demanding, I know.

Hmm, I don't like all the black dusty stuff - if it is a cocoon, then I've never seen one with mould round it.

You need to read Squelch by John Halkin. Classic of the giant killer moths with man-eating caterpillars genre.

Er... Where in the Midlands?! (Please say North...)

Ahem. Hope your DD is ok by the way and outpatients not too bad (if BCH we were there on Tuesday). How is she after her operation?

I agree with FyreFly
It looks more like a fungus to me, although I'm no expert on these things.

Am I the only one who's itchy now?

BitOutOfPractice no, you're not alone.

Will there be anything left of your home/surrounding area when you get back?

Hope appointment goes well, but approach that corner with trepidation. There may be a scene of devestation, when you turn it.

devastation

This talk of moths reminds me of a huge mother fucker moth that flew into our kitchen at our old house.

It was the size of a small bird and so "in your face" flappy. We thought it went back out that evening.

However, it emerged the next night in its full glory from behind the fridge. I was upstairs cowering whilst dh ushered the monster out with a broom.

I love wildlife and would never intentionally harm a living creature. But that moth was from another dimension.

Holy poo. Has anyone seen the film Mimicry? I just hope there's not a moth countrymummy in there

Email your pics to the Natural Hidtory Museum or some such society!

I have a bit of an issue with butterflies in that I absolutely can't stand them. I was in Borneo a few years ago and there was one the size of a dinner plate on the wall. .

I don't really like moths either, but butterflies are worse. Let's hope it's some kind of alien.

This.Is.The.Shit.Of.Nightmares

I'm itching.

And please don't bomb the Midlands. I live in the Midlands and I've never seen any shit like this. Just bomb CountryMummy1 's house before it infects us all!!!!

Does look like some kind of fungus though.

My money's on some sort of fungus...when we had dry rot there were some pretty impressive blooms pretty quickly yes I know you don't care about my rot but needed to place Mark

Looks fungal to me. Terrifying, but fungal.

This does have Daily Fail written all over it. And with the story money you can buy a new house. You will need to anyway as the moth men will I assume want to upgrade from their outhouse into your actual house once they pupate.

OK, now I've seen a proper picture on my laptop, I am 100% positive it is a fungus. It looks far too dull, asymmetrical and dirty to be a pupa. Plus it looks like it's bloomed out of the wall, and is flat against the wall, whereas I'd expect a pupa to be completely 3D on all sides if you see what I mean?

Fucking hell I have never seen anything like that. I can't stop itching now!

Enjoy dont watch legos video!!

I've just looked on google images that was bad enough no way am I watching that video