Originally Posted By: Taym
Originally Posted By: g_attrill
Death's Head Hawkmoth:

http://earthsky.org/earth/lifeform-of-the-week-deaths-head-hawkmoth-is-stranger-than-fiction

That's the one The Silence of the Lambs, isn't it?

Yep. Buffalo Bill put that into the mouths of his victims to symbolize metamorphosis. He wanted to transform from something ugly into something beautiful.

Of course, while I know there are very beautiful moths in the world, I think this particular one looks prettier in its caterpillar form...
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