The Polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus) is the most widely distributed of the giant silk moths in North America. The ethereal luna moth (Actias luna) is another large, common and well-known ...

The Polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus) is a large North American saturniid with captivating eyespots on its hindwings. Eighteenth-century Dutch entomologist Pieter Cramer named it after the ...

Polyphemus Moth, Antheraea polyphemus According to Washington State University, other larger species of moths live in Washington and are part of the Saturniidae or Sphingidae families. One example ...

and the Chinese tussar moth (Antheraea pernyi). The researchers found that the tips of the forewings incorporate rippled and folded structures, which serve as hemispheric and corner ...

Marc Holderied at the University of Bristol, UK, and his colleagues projected sound waves at the wings of two species of earless moths (Antheraea pernyi and Dactyloceras Lucina). They found that ...

Some moths are able to hear those calls ... 8-mm discs out of the wings of euthanized deaf Chinese oak silk moths (Antheraea pernyi), then placing those sections on same-sized aluminum discs.

In their study, the researchers investigated sound dampening mechanisms in two earless species of moth – Antheraea pernyi and Dactyloceras lucina. They first used a combination of scanning electron ...