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paaco1981 Apr 02, 2010 02:43 PM

I saw this on my front porch about an hour ago just sitting on the concrete and snapped a photo of it with my phone. I have no idea what it is but it's the coolest looking moth I think I have seen. The 4 dots on it's back look like little mouths to me.

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pilonm Apr 03, 2010 10:22 AM

Hello,

You found a wonderful Luna moth (Actias luna). So this is not mouths but moons on the wings

The male doesn't feed and stays alive for around a week only (time to find a female!).

You can compare it with the one I photographed last year on my website (click on "Papillon lune".

http://parcours.pilonm.org/insectes/saturniidae.htm

Cheers,

Michel
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Michel Pilon
Naturalist-photographer
Quebec, Canada

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