Their caterpillars feed on leaves from a variety of trees and shrubs during the summer, then spin their cocoons at the approach of winter.” Learn how to identify a luna moth. Caterpillars go ...

This is the time of year — mid-March to early April — when the adult codling moth, a little grayish-brown lepidopteran, emerges from its cocoon. It has spent the winter pupating, most likely ...

Adult atlas moths may be massive, but they do not feed at all after they have emerged from the cocoon. The proboscis, which other butterflies and moths use to drink nectar, is tiny and does not work.