The Luna Moth is the fairy of the insect world with pale green wings shaped like leaves and long, streaming tails. Its mission is to mate before its short life ends, usually within a week.

The big, pale green swallow-tailed luna moth is an example of all of these things, as is the cecropia moth, which can be 15cm across. Another reason we dislike moths is that they normally come out ...

This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Light green, long winged, and roughly the size of a playing card, the luna moth is a striking creature. It’s a clever ...

The luna moth (Actias luna) is a saturniid (a member ... This saturniid’s upper wing tips look curiously like the side view of a cobra head—which some entomologists think could be an ...