THE LUNA MOTH—Actias luna Linn

1877 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-33
Keyword(s):  
Actias Luna

scholarly journals A new species of Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) reared from the hickory horned devil, Citheronia regalis, and luna moth, Actias luna, in east Texas

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 740 ◽  
pp. 35-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Whitfield ◽  
Robert J. Nuelle Jr. ◽  
Robert J. Nuelle III
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North American ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Actias Luna ◽  
Braconid Wasp ◽  
A New Species

The braconid wasp parasitoidCotesianuellorumWhitfield, new species, is described from specimens reared from a caterpillar of the hickory horned devil,Citheroniaregalis(F.), and from a caterpillar of the luna moth,Actiasluna(L.), in eastern Texas. The species is diagnosed with respect to other species ofCotesiarecorded from North American Saturniidae, and details of its biology are provided.

scholarly journals ACTIAS LUNA

1895 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-32
Author(s):  
H. H. Lyman
Keyword(s):  
Actias Luna

on 24th May Mr. Lachlan Gibb took a female, which he left alive to get eggs, a number of which were laid between the 25th and 29th. On the 14th June the eggs were hatching, and the larvæ were offered butternut leaves, which they eat readily, and matured very rapidly. About the 27th of the month, Mr. Gibb kindly gave me four of these larvæ which were then apparently more than half grown. They moulted once only, so far as my observations went, after I received them, and on 12th July three spun their cocoons, the fourth doing this on the 16th. Early in August Mr.Gibb asked me to take charge of his cocoons, and keep them with mine, as giving a better opportunity of getting another lot of eggs next season, and on 20th August I was surprised to find that one of Mr. Gibb's cocoons had disclosed the imago, a ♀.

scholarly journals ON SOME OF OUR COMMON INSECTS.: THE LUNA MOTH—Actias luna Linn

1875 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 141-143
Author(s):  
R. V. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Insect Host ◽  
Actias Luna

If any of the insect host is a proof of high art in nature, and of the beauty of the creator's thoughts, it is most assuredly the fair creature whose name is mentioned above. Allied to families whose members are among the greatest of the insect world, and having cousins and connections surpassing in size and beauty all others of their kingdom in this Dominion, still this moth is as pre-eminent above its fellows as is its namesake–the fair empress of the sky–above the lesser lights that rule the night.

scholarly journals BRIEF NOTES ON THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF SEVERAL SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA

1869 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-29
Author(s):  
CHAS. S. Minot
Keyword(s):  
Exceptional Case ◽  
Actias Luna

1. Actias Luna.—Eggs laid at night by a female in confinement, on April 30th (this is an exceptional case, they are not generally laid until June). They are lateriform, obrotundate, smooth, approaching in some cases a spheroid, opaque, very dark sepia with a faint tinge of olivaceous, though some specimens were marked with broad white bands irregularly disposed, and a very few almost entirely white.

Sex Attractant Pheromone of the Luna Moth, Actias luna (Linnaeus)

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (9) ◽  
pp. 869-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn G. Millar ◽  
Kenneth F. Haynes ◽  
Aaron T. Dossey ◽  
J. Steven McElfresh ◽  
Jeremy D. Allison
Keyword(s):  
Sex Attractant ◽  
Sex Attractant Pheromone ◽  
Attractant Pheromone ◽  
Actias Luna

scholarly journals AN ABERRATION OF ACTIAS LUNA

1902 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-70
Author(s):  
A. Radcliffe. Grote
Keyword(s):  
Small Male ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Actias Luna ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Right ◽  
At Home

My friends have not always forgotten me, but have occasionally sent me live Saturnian chrysalids, spun up no doubt with the intention of the insect to emerge in America. Instead, the poor deluded creatures appeared as months in my German room, allowing me to deceive myself for the moment that in my German room, allowing me to deceive myself for the moment that I was at home. Cynthia, promethea, cecropia, polyphemus, io and even imperialis, came out as in America. The only difficulty I had was with my few cocoons of luna, the moths in some cases failing to expand their wings. But, if my memory does not fail, this accident happens also more especially with luna in the breeding cage at home. Amont the examples which emerged here is one small male, expanding 78 mil., which is the most curious example of the species I remember to have seen. The wings are almos prefectly expanded, a little unevenness of the costa of the right primary, which is somewhat concave, and a slight crumpling of the costal region of both secondaries, are traces of retarded development; the “tails” are fully out.

scholarly journals THE LUNA MOTH (Actias luna)

1875 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 199-200
Author(s):  
R. V. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Actias Luna

As supplementary to my remarks on this pretty creature in the August number of the Can. Ent., I would say thaton June 6th a friend gave me a captured female Luna. For two or three nights I used her as a trap to entangle unwary males, but in vain as far as my cabinet was concerned; the weather was cold. On the 7th,8th and 9th, during the silent watches of the night, she deposited in her place of confinement, in all, about 100 eggs of a dark brown or chocolate color, flattened at the sides, smooth and about .005 of an inch in length: the sides were of a lighter shade.

NOTE

1887 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-18 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Actias Luna

Living Pupæ.— The Rev. W.J. Holland (5th Avenue, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Pa.) has a large number of living pupæ of Tela Polyphemus, Actias Luna, C. Promethea and Angularis, E. Imperialis and C. Regalis, reared in the South, which he desires to dispose of at reasonable rates. His object is to asist and encourage a poor lad whom he has interested in Entomology. Application should be made to him at once.

SOME NOTES ON ACTIAS LUNA (LEPID)

1932 ◽  
Vol 64 (11) ◽  
pp. 263-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Birdsong
Keyword(s):  
Actias Luna

Elliott and Soule in ‘Caterpillars and their Moths’ say of the luna eggs—“Luna eggs are as purely white as its own white scales. We have had many eggs of luna, and never one which was not white.”

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