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Until today, I had never seen a Luna Moth.   On the evening of my birthday,  Richard found one clinging to a twig low under a rusty blackhaw viburnum.  I rushed out with the camera.

Luna Moth

We think this moth had just emerged and begun the “stretching out” process, but we know very little about them.   Richard said they were fairly common in rural Alabama when he was a child, with “moth-watching parties” in the evenings.

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