"Feathered" moth

Description:

This is the strangest moth I've ever seen. Why? Because it appears to have feathers! Instead of solid wings like all its cousins--in fact all the rest of insects!- It has spines radiating out from its thorax, basically quills! And coming off each of those quills are hundreds of bristles. A great example of what is called convergent evolution: two totally unrelated animals or plants that have evolved toward the same answer to a particular survival "question." This "plumed moth" (Alucita montana) just hasn't evolved as far yet as have birds, since its bristles don't interlock.