Luna Moth Metal Print

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There is a "dusk to dawn" light over our garage doors, and it attracts a variety of flying insects at night, including these luna moths (Actius Luna). Found mostly in the eastern half of North America, Luna moths are about 5" across, but often appear even larger, due to the long tails on their hindwings. You can just faintly see the second set of "eyespots" on it's lower wings (through the upper wings). It's suggested that these eyespots may help the luna moths ward off potential predators.

While preparing this narrative, I read that the large feathery antennae are larger on the male moth, and help him pick up trace amount of pheromones -- chemicals that the females release that allow him to find her even in complete darkness.

The morning this photo was taken we found five of these moths on the north side of our house. Most of them looked a little worse for the wear -- like maybe they had been fighting or had almost fallen prey to some type of predator. This one loo...

Cricket Hackmann is a fine art photographer specializing in Missouri landscapes. As a farm wife and mother-of-two, Cricket Hackmann's love of photography began with documenting her children's days...and has expanded to become a means of holding on to a piece of all the beauty that surrounds us. Her goal is to produce vibrant, stunning images of the rural landscapes and close-ups of nature in central Missouri...with occasional other subjects included as they catch her eye. As a self-taught photographer, Cricket works daily to learn new ways of honing her skills and improving her art. She uses a DSLR camera as her primary tool to capture an image, and then various software programs, as needed, to transform the image into the desired...