Habitat: Ohio Valley Region

Attracted to: drawn to bright lights, wildflower gardens

Sharp, chilling clicks echo in the dense woodland, a large figure shrouding the area in darkness—all becomes silent. From the treetops, a billowing, sharp figure descends like a loosed arrow, wrapping around a deer. A quick and efficient kill, the animal is engulfed as if consumed by a black hole. Its meal engorged hastily, the creature stands tall, fur standing on end, pointy and wild. Its ominous, quivering wings spread out, stretching and obscuring the world around it in inky black. Wrapping back around itself like a cloak, it leaps suddenly into the air, bounding from branch to branch, higher and higher, its tattered wings trailing behind. Clicks echo once again in the forest.

Diet: may be carnivorous or herbivorous

Society: solitary

Lifespan: approximately 6 years

Reproduction: promiscuous; performs courtship display; may interbreed

Caterpillar Phase

Each lifecycle, hundreds of Mothman caterpillars are birthed into the world. Small, plump insects, they have two spiky, pale, striped horns, two large, purple eyes, a diamond-shaped mouth…