It's not a butterfly — it's a moth! Learn how to identify the promethea silk moth, a beautifully patterned backyard visitor.

This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Light green, long winged, and roughly the size of a playing card, the luna moth is a striking creature. It’s a clever ...

The big, pale green swallow-tailed luna moth is an example of all of these ... term for middle part of the body of an insect) has thin blue lines. The Habrosyne has a pattern like a Native ...