🌙 North American Luna Moth

Actias luna · wildlife atlas entry

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Pale-green satellites of eastern North American forests; adults have no mouthparts and live about a week on fat reserves alone. Tails on the hindwings tumble the flight path to confuse bat sonar.

North American Luna Moth — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Patrick Randall, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

Record card

Scientific name	Actias luna
Rank	species
Community observations	70,957 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Arthropoda › class Insecta › order Lepidoptera › family Saturniidae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

North American Luna Moth photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2013-07-08 · Cumberland County, US-ME, US
(c) Riis, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

North American Luna Moth photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2023-06-23 · Virginia, US
(c) pine617, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

North American Luna Moth photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-08-07
(c) pine617, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

North American Luna Moth photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-07-31 · Deer Trail Dr, Springboro, OH, US
(c) luke_reid, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

North American Luna Moth photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2025-07-10 · Ch de la Saint-Léon-C, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, QC, CA
(c) shreddywa, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

North American Luna Moth photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2025-06-16 · Sudbury District, ON, Canada
(c) ava_hunt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

North American Luna Moth photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-08-18 · SR-681, Albany, OH, US
(c) raenved, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Photographs are Creative Commons-licensed observations from iNaturalist, credited as each licence requires. Click any photo for the full research record.

All North American Luna Moth records on iNaturalist → · Encyclopedia entry (Wikipedia) →

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