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Created: May 1997
Web Page Address: http://schools.bvsd.org/coalcreek/Pages/Rachael_emperormoth.html
Send comments or questions to Linda Overholser.
Wht is it? A piece of the moon? No. It's an Emperor Moth, one of the largest moths in the world. If an Emperor Moth is a female it can have ten babies a month and a total of120 a year. Females have the same body pattern as males, but females are just a little pinker. You can tell the male from the female because the male has longer antennae. The male can smell a female from 6 miles away The adult Emperor Moth doesn't eat because it doesn't have any mouth parts.
I got my information from BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS by Barbara Taylor.
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