iT’S NICE TO MEET YOU luna

I adore Luna Moths. The first time that I saw one, was oddly enough in a campground bathroom. If you’ve visited these often, they are not necessarily lovely places to spend a lot of time. However, I was so excited when I saw the moth, and at the time although I didn’t know what kind of moth it was, I was mesmerized by it’s sheer size and beautiful coloring. I wanted to share this experience with my daughters, so I did, I pointed it out to them. But at the time - as fairly small children - but it turned out that big unfamiliar scary insects in a place they didn’t want to be in the first place - was not their idea of fun. But from that day on, I was just fascinated with them.

For the first time, in late summer, I was walking in the yard and saw one at the base of a tree. It was gorgeous. I spent about an hour admiring it and feeling lucky to have found it. I figure, that if they entire life span was about 10 days total, I was pretty fortunate to spend a little time with it. For years I’ve had moonflowers, in hopes of attracting that the fragrance would attract them to the yard, and maybe my plan finally worked. I can only hope that they laid some eggs nearby and maybe I’ll see another one next summer. Fingers crossed!