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By John Trott The Virginia Naturalist to share natural revelations. The impulse to relate an experience with nature accounts for most of my mail in response to these columns. Natural wonder — watchers feel a strong urge to tell others what they have seen. If not that, to write of it and, in my case, to photograph what has been revealed to me. My delay in describing the luna moth is because I feel inadequate to the task. Theodore Roosevelt wrote that describing the Grand Canyon bankrupts the English language. I know what he meant. The luna moth has a wingspread of six and a half inches; that’s a sizable insect. To those impressive dimensions, add a color which I can only describe as being like the pale green of the newly emerged leaves of the tulip poplar in mid-April. The tail of the luna moth, extensions of the hind, or underwing, are long and swallow-like. The wings are outBREEDEN'S
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