The gorgeous lime-green luna with its dapper tails is the climax stage of a four-part life cycle. It starts life as a tiny egg, which hatches a caterpillar about 10 days later.

Diet: Luna moth caterpillars prefer the foliage of hickory, walnut, sweet-gum, persimmon and birch trees. During their adult stage, luna moths do not eat. They can’t – they have no mouth parts.

A luna begins life as one of up to 300 eggs deposited by a female moth on an appropriate host plant. Suitable fodder includes tree species such as beech, cherry, hickory and walnut.

Most don't realize the Luna moth is one of the giant silkworm species. To get ready for the pupae or cocoon stage the caterpillar spins a silk yarn wrapped in a leaf where it will undergo the ...

Luna moths sightings are rare. The moths themselves are not so much rare as secluded, secretive and short-lived, for these are deep-woods dwelling, night-flying, short-lived moths. In New England ...