Found throughout the eastern United States and Canada, this silk moth’s unique pale green color and long tails make it easy ...

In the wild, atlas moth caterpillars eat the leaves of cinnamon ... slowing flapping its wings to imitate snake head and neck movements and scare away predators. Atlas moth caterpillars also produce ...

The author visits 17th-century collections of silk-moth species and examines the papers ... people like Georg Eberhard Rumpf, who championed wild silk species, and the scholar Charles Masson ...