Random pretty things

I thought I would post a few photos I took of interesting things from last week.

The first picture is of a huge (maybe 15 cm wingspan) green and beige moth that I found under one of the lights of the old lab. It even has little transparent windows speckled throughout its wing pattern!

The next picture shows a ripe, opened fruit of Virola koschnyi (a wild nutmeg). The ridged brown seed is surrounded completely by an octopus-like bright red aril. Birds love to eat this fruit!

I do not know what this flower is, but it is found in abundance across the street from my house -- in the neighbor's garden.

Here is another photo of a pretty flower from the neighbor's garden -- a Hibiscus.