| The Lunar Moth wing is by far one of the most
spectacular green moth wings on the planet and
it is not only a naturally fluorescent green
color, but this one glows-in-the-dark and has full
wing fluttering animatronic motion! If you already
have one of our existing electronic butterfly,
dragonfly or moth products you can buy a spare
lunar moth wing and exchange it with the one you
have. Not only is this a
great way to change your display but it will surprise
and shock everyone who sees it when its wings start
to glow in the dark! Collect all of our naturally
styled artificial butterfly, dragonfly, moth
glow-in-the-dark insect wings!
The Luna moth or Lunar Moth (Actius luna) comes
from a type of giant silk moth which has a pair
of natural fluorescent green colored wings with
a brown, and white "eye" on
each of its wings. They have long, sweeping
lower wing-tails. The normal wing
span for Lunar Moths is from 3 to nearly 8 inches
across. This nocturnal
insect is also found in deciduous hardwood forests
in North America, from Canada to Northern Mexico.
You' can find
them in almost any area that has deciduous trees
if you hang out near bright lights at the night
where they like to buzz around. The Luna moth
starts life as a tiny egg then hatches into a
plump lime-green caterpillar with tiny orange
spots along the sides. At first the slow-moving
Luna caterpillar eats leaves from the following
trees: white birch, alder, persimmon, sweet
gum, hickory, walnut, and sumac trees. After
eating and growing to a substantial size, the
caterpillar builds a brown, tent-like cocoon,
and will eventually emerge as a fully-grown
adult. Finally as a mature adult the Lunar
Moth doesn't ever eat, instead it searches only
for a mate so that it can breed and then it dies. |
