{"id":171,"date":"2009-03-09T22:25:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T04:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2009-03-09T22:25:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T04:25:31","slug":"luna-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Luna Moth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We saw a Luna Moth again today.\u00a0 It might have been the same one or another one.\u00a0\u00a0 This was in the mid-morning of a cloudy day, with a strong wind from the S (the other side of the fence.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_172\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172\" title=\"luna-moth309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/luna-moth309.jpg\" alt=\"Luna Moth\" width=\"244\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/luna-moth309.jpg 244w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/luna-moth309-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luna Moth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The white &#8220;frosting&#8221; on the forewing purple stripe is (when really enlarged) white scales mixed with the purplish ones.\u00a0 You can just see the underwing eyespots showing through.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The first time Richard spotted it, on Saturday evening, it was on a rusty blackhaw viburnum, a valuable native shrub that&#8217;s being eliminated from the area (along with every other bit of understory) on the grounds of being &#8220;brush&#8221;&#8211;the acreage across the highway from ours, for instance, has been scraped bare except for live oaks.\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s our largest yard specimen, planted about twenty years ago:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_173\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173\" class=\"size-full wp-image-173\" title=\"rusty-blackhaw-viburnum312\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rusty-blackhaw-viburnum312.jpg\" alt=\"Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum\" width=\"323\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rusty-blackhaw-viburnum312.jpg 323w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rusty-blackhaw-viburnum312-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s just opening its flower clusters; it&#8217;s beautiful in all seasons with shiny green leaves, the white flowers, blue berries that birds love, and shiny red leaves in the fall.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One this size, if you could even find it in a nursery, would be worth over $500, and yet developers scrape them (and other valuable natives) off without a thought.<\/p>\n<p>On a happier note, a final closer-up picture of the Luna Moth:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_174\" style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-174\" class=\"size-full wp-image-174\" title=\"luna-moth311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/luna-moth311.jpg\" alt=\"Luna Moth\" width=\"391\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/luna-moth311.jpg 391w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/luna-moth311-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luna Moth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The shading around the markings on the forewing makes them look three-dimensional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw a Luna Moth again today.\u00a0 It might have been the same one or another one.\u00a0\u00a0 This was in the mid-morning of a cloudy day, with a strong wind from the S (the other side of the fence. 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