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Actias luna
3" wingspan luna moth flapping about on our driveway seemingly unable to fly.
Semi rural
Spotted on Apr 22, 2014
Submitted on Apr 22, 2014
12 Comments
Thank you Sunny & Carol!
Wonderful!!
Wow!! Loved the perfect symmetry of this spotting!! Lovely find Karen..
Thank you all for your kind comments! When I found him he appeared to be unable to fly so I'm guessing he was newly eclosed, which is why he is so vividly colored & in such good nick. I tried to relocate him to somewhere a little safer, but he got agitated when I tried to gently pick him up so I left him there. A couple of hours later I saw him on the side of a crate so he had managed to fly a little. In the morning he was gone, hopefully to pass on his genes to a new generation of these lovely moths!
An especially beautiful specimen.
Lovely! I haven't see any in such good condition here.
Nice one Karen
Beautiful!
Thank you Arya & Florian!
wow
*moth
Wow thats a beautiful month!