Luna moth, the Glossary
The luna moth (Actias luna), also called the American moon moth, is a Nearctic moth in the family Saturniidae, subfamily Saturniinae, a group commonly named the giant silk moths.[1]
Table of Contents
72 relations: Actias, Anatomical terms of location, Animal echolocation, Antenna (biology), Anti-predator adaptation, Apolysis, Aposematism, Automeris io, Betula papyrifera, Big Thief, Biological pest control, Broad-leaved tree, Canada, Carl Linnaeus, Caterpillar, Climate, Cocoonase, Common name, Compsilura concinnata, Defence mechanism, Diapause, Diospyros virginiana, Ecdysis, Exoskeleton, Eyespot (mimicry), Florida, Generation, Great Plains, Hemolymph, Hickory, Imago, Instar, Introduced species, Invasive species, James Petiver, Journal of Natural History, Juglone, Lepidoptera, Lepidoptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Lime (color), Liquidambar styraciflua, Liriodendron, Luna (goddess), Lymantria dispar, Maine, Moth, Nearctic realm, Nocturnality, North America, Nova Scotia, ... Expand index (22 more) »
Actias
Actias is a genus of Saturniid moths, which contains the Asian-American moon moths.
Anatomical terms of location
Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans.
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Animal echolocation
Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is a biological active sonar used by several animal groups, both in the air and underwater.
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Antenna (biology)
Antennae (antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers", are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.
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Anti-predator adaptation
Anti-predator adaptations are mechanisms developed through evolution that assist prey organisms in their constant struggle against predators.
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Apolysis
Apolysis (ἀπόλυσις "discharge, lit. absolution") is the separation of the cuticle from the epidermis in arthropods and related groups (Ecdysozoa).
Aposematism
Aposematism is the advertising by an animal, whether terrestrial or marine, to potential predators that it is not worth attacking or eating.
Automeris io
Automeris io, the Io moth or peacock moth, is a colorful North American moth in the family Saturniidae.
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Betula papyrifera
Betula papyrifera (paper birch, also known as (American) white birch and canoe birch) is a short-lived species of birch native to northern North America.
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Big Thief
Big Thief is an American indie folk band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 2015.
Biological pest control
Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals or plants by using other organisms.
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Broad-leaved tree
A broad-leaved, broad-leaf, or broadleaf tree is any tree within the diverse botanical group of angiosperms that has flat leaves and produces seeds inside of fruits.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Caterpillar
Caterpillars are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).
Climate
Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.
Cocoonase
Cocoonase is a trypsin-like proteolytic enzyme produced by silkworms (of both Bombyx, Heliconius and Antheraea species) as they near the final stages of their metamorphosis.
Common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.
Compsilura concinnata
Compsilura concinnata (tachinid fly; order Diptera) is a parasitoid native to Europe that was introduced to North America in 1906 to control the population of an exotic forest, univoltine, spongy moth named Lymantria dispar.
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Defence mechanism
In psychoanalytic theory, a defence mechanism is an unconscious psychological operation that functions to protect a person from anxiety-producing thoughts and feelings related to internal conflicts and outer stressors.
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Diapause
In animal dormancy, diapause is the delay in development in response to regular and recurring periods of adverse environmental conditions.
Diospyros virginiana
Diospyros virginiana is a persimmon species commonly called the American persimmon, common persimmon, eastern persimmon, simmon, possumwood, possum apples, or sugar plum.
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Ecdysis
Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.
Exoskeleton
An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.
Eyespot (mimicry)
An eyespot (sometimes ocellus) is an eye-like marking.
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Florida
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Generation
A generation is all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.
Great Plains
The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flatland in North America.
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Hemolymph
Hemolymph, or haemolymph, is a fluid, analogous to the blood in vertebrates, that circulates in the interior of the arthropod (invertebrate) body, remaining in direct contact with the animal's tissues.
Hickory
Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus Carya, which includes around 18 species.
Imago
In biology, the imago (Latin for "image") is the last stage an insect attains during its metamorphosis, its process of growth and development; it is also called the imaginal stage ("imaginal" being "imago" in adjective form), the stage in which the insect attains maturity.
Instar
An instar (from the Latin īnstar 'form, likeness') is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, which occurs between each moult (ecdysis) until sexual maturity is reached.
Introduced species
An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.
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Invasive species
An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.
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James Petiver
James Petiver was a London apothecary, a fellow of the Royal Society as well as London's informal Temple Coffee House Botany Club, famous for his specimen collections in which he traded and study of botany and entomology.
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Journal of Natural History
The Journal of Natural History is a scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis focusing on entomology and zoology.
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Juglone
Juglone, also called 5-hydroxy-1,4-naphthalenedione (IUPAC) is a phenolic organic compound with the molecular formula C10H6O3.
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera or lepidopterans is an order of winged insects that includes butterflies and moths.
Lepidoptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus classified the arthropods, including insects, arachnids and crustaceans, among his class "Insecta".
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Lime (color)
Lime is a color that is a shade of yellow-green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes.
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Liquidambar styraciflua
American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), also known as American storax, hazel pine, bilsted, redgum, satin-walnut, star-leaved gum, alligatorwood, gumball tree, or simply sweetgum, is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar native to warm temperate areas of eastern North America and tropical montane regions of Mexico and Central America.
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Liriodendron
Liriodendron is a genus of two species of characteristically large trees, deciduous over most of their populations, in the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae).
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Luna (goddess)
In Sabine and ancient Roman religion and myth, Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon (Latin Lūna). She is often presented as the female complement of the Sun, Sol, conceived of as a god.
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Lymantria dispar
Lymantria dispar, also known as the gypsy moth or the spongy moth, is a species of moth in the family Erebidae native to Europe and Asia. Luna moth and Lymantria dispar are moths described in 1758.
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Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.
Moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies.
Nearctic realm
The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.
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Nocturnality
Nocturnality is a behavior in some non-human animals characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.
Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
Pheromone
A pheromone is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.
Populus deltoides
Populus deltoides, the eastern cottonwood or necklace poplar, is a species of cottonwood poplar native to North America, growing throughout the eastern, central, and southwestern United States as well as the southern Canadian prairies, the southernmost part of eastern Canada, and northeastern Mexico.
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Populus tremuloides
Populus tremuloides is a deciduous tree native to cooler areas of North America, one of several species referred to by the common name aspen.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
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Prunus serotina
Prunus serotina, commonly called black cherry,.
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Pupa
A pupa (pupae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.
Quebec
QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
Quercus subg. Quercus
Quercus subgenus Quercus is one of the two subgenera into which the genus Quercus was divided in a 2017 classification (the other being subgenus ''Cerris'').
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Salix alba
Salix alba, the white willow, is a species of willow native to Europe and western and central Asia.
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a province in Western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dakota).
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Saturniidae
Saturniidae, members of which are commonly named the saturniids, is a family of Lepidoptera with an estimated 2,300 described species.
Saturniinae
The Saturniinae or saturniines are a subfamily of the family Saturniidae, also known as giant silkmoths.
Southern United States
The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.
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Sumac
Sumac or sumach is any of about 35 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera in the cashew family (Anacardiaceae).
U.F.O.F.
U.F.O.F. is the third studio album by the American band Big Thief, released through 4AD on May 3, 2019.
Vagrancy (biology)
Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal (usually a bird) appears well outside its normal range; they are known as vagrants.
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Vestigiality
Vestigiality is the retention, during the process of evolution, of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral function in a given species.
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Voltinism
Voltinism is a term used in biology to indicate the number of broods or generations of an organism in a year.
Walnut
A walnut is the edible seed of any tree of the genus Juglans (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, Juglans regia.
Wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip.
10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_moth
Also known as Actias luna, American moon moth, Luna moths.
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