It’s National Moth Week! To celebrate, here are two different angles of luna moths as they painstakingly cut their way out of the silk cocoons they built as caterpillars and overwintered in as pupae! Adult luna moths (Actias luna) have a unique way of emerging from their cocoons using sharp “spurs” at the base of their wings. Most of their giant silk moth cousins rely on an enzyme known as cocoonase, which they secrete in order to melt perfect escape holes from their cocoons. Luna moths use this
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Turn on the sound 📢 so you can HEAR my Luna moth getting mothy in their cocoon. Luna moths are part of the saturnidae family also known as the giant silk moths. (My book Moth Metamorphosis tells about their whole life cycle) As much as I have learned about these most majestic creatures, I DID NOT KNOW you could hear them moving around in there! I wasn’t even sure it was still alive but it is! 🐛🐛🐛 This is the kind of discovery that makes life livable, IMHO. Stay curious and enjoy the simple w
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