Texas Gardening: Critters that visit your garden - post your pics!, 1 by podster

podster wrote:
Very neat moth ~ Larissa. I agree I am fascinated by the delicate features of them.

I found this Luna moth laying on the porch earlier this spring. I was careful not to handle him but held out a dried leave and he stepped on it. I took some photos and relocated him.

In the process, I educated myself a little... the Luna moth has seasonal forms where it is double brooded. The summer form has yellow wing margins, whereas the spring form has pink to purple wing margins. Larva feeds mainly on Sweet Gum, Hickory, Walnut, Birch and Oak. Pupa is active in its' papery cocoon, usually spun on the ground.

This one did have the purplish wing margins being springtime.