Butterflies might get all the credit for being the pretty ones, but moths can definitely share the spotlight. Some of these ...

The luna moth (Actias luna ... Another Madagascar saturniid deserves a mention, too: the Madagascan moon moth, or Argema mittrei. (Argema is Greek for “speckled eye.”) It’s sometimes ...

luna moths with wings the color of celadon; and scarab beetles iridescent as opals. The moon, which illuminates this stage, borrows its light from the sun. Its ashen light, the Greek philosophers ...

The Luna Moth is the fairy of the insect world ... color and even makes a hissing noise when threatened. The Spanish Moon Moth has pale green wings, outlined in velvety black.