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Luna Moth
Hi!
A couple of week’s ago I found what I now know to be a Luna Moth in our driveway. It flew away before I had a chance to get a picture of it. (A cardinal tried to make breakfast of it, but it escaped safely into our walnut tree.) I tried to identify this beautiful, HUGE, green butterfly, but with no luck. Then one night while watching TV, the ad for "Lunesta" came on and I let out a loud "That’s it!!" A quick search on the internet identified it as the Luna Moth which then lead me to your great site. The picture I’m enclosing is of a second Luna Moth that showed up in the same place as the first one — in our driveway. I spotted it this morning about 6:30 AM and this time I had my camera ready. This fellow is smaller than the first one and in better condition. Maybe it’s a young one? I live about 6 miles north of Richland Center, WI in Rockbridge Township of Richland County. We have several acres of walnut trees so perhaps that is what is attracting them here. In any event, I feel so blessed to have been given a second chance to capture an image of this lovely moth. It is stunning!!
Robin

Hi Robin,
Here at What’s That Bug?, we feel that diligence, patience and research should all be rewarded, and though it isn’t much, we will be posting your image of a Luna Moth on our homepage. We always try to keep timely sightings that will benefit visitors to our site posted on the homepage so our readership doesn’t need to sift through the archives for their answers. Additionally, we always love getting letters from people who have identified their mystery guests by using our archives instead of just clicking the “Ask WTB” link the minute they see it.

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