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Actias luna
Memeber of the family Satuniidae (giant silk moths) this strikingly large moth is characterized by bright-pale green coloration with pink to dark eye-spots & accents on wings. Most active during spring & summer. Nocturnal.
Hardwood forests.
Spotted on Aug 1, 2012
Submitted on Sep 1, 2012
2 Comments
So elegant!
Nice begining Kim,congrats thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah :)
I hope you like the site and the community as much we do.There are many features you can explore,the chats for questions and comments on your's and other's spottings and to elp you in the ID process,a blog wich link is http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where you can find articls about wildlife writen by our best's specialist's in each field and news about some of our most knowed users wild adventures and experiences.
Normaly spottings are adeed to missions to make easier the acess to other user's,the missions link is this http://www.projectnoah.org/missions ,here you can find the ones fits better in your case.Attention to the range of each mission,there are missions that haved a global name but are local,so you have to see the map of the mission and their you have the range of the mission marked,if is in your residential area ist' good,them there are global missions that you can join freely.For furder info you should go to http://www.projectnoah.org/faq,here you will find all the rules of Project Noah
Enjoy your self,see you arround :)