Living Only to Mate
Please enjoy Dwight Roth’s Stunning photos and an amazing story about this beautiful creature.
When you hear Living Only to Mate, you might think I am talking about people or animals, but in this case I am referring to the Luna Moth. According to Wikapedia, it goes through several different growth stages. It finally emerging as an adult that has no mouth, does not eat, and lives for about a week and only to mate. Lunas mostly comes out at night, but can be seen during the day.
This beautiful creature was sitting in my grass yesterday. I noticed it as I was walking by. I got my camera and shot a few photos. This one is a male as shown by the straight wing line across the top of its body. I was very excited to see it.
I say poetry is beauty and beauty is poetry… no words needed:
The Showers of Blessings 
Nature is full of vividity, wonders and amazing surprises
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Yes, they don’t complain!
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Such a beautiful creature but so sad it’s life ends so fast…
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It seems to happen to quite a few lives in the nature such as salmon fish. They swim north against the rapid and current back to their birthplace to lay eggs. They then die after eggs are laid!
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I have seen a Luna Moth once. Beautiful.
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Do they show up during the day? It seems like the photos were taken during the day.
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Yes
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Oh , that’s nice!
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We are blessed.
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Yes, God is good!
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https://tanyatale.wordpress.com/2017/07/07/bridge-of-eternal-love/
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Hi Miriam. Not sure if your aware of this but but your posts are not in the main feed. Looks like your blog is private. Not completely sure though
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Nigel, thank you for letting me know. I turned my old site to be private. WP recommended that I don’t delete it, so it’s still floating out there. I changed to a new link and transferred everything to the new link. Please add my new link to your Reader feed and click follow. That should work. Sorry for the trouble Let me know if my new link works: https://theshowerofblessings.wordpress.com/
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I unfollowed then followed again and you showed up. It worked for me maybe it might work for others
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Yes, it was the problem I had a couple months ago. WP fixed it. So most of the followers also made the adjustment. Thank you Nigel!
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So beautiful. Never seen one of these before.
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I haven’t seen such a beautiful moth either!
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It’s a WOW 🙂
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That’s what I say!
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Thank you Miriam for this great affirmation!
Dwight
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Dwight, it’s my pleasure to show your post in my blog. Thank you. Miriam
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Thank you for reblogging this. I never knew this kind of moth existed!
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It caught my attention too. I usually see brown, grey, light brown moths. This one is beautiful! Almost like a butterfly! I’m glad Dwight took the photos!
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Thanks for sharing
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You’re very welcome!
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Marvellous!
How great and amazing is Creation!
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Amen to that! God gives such a beauty to a creature that lives a short life and lives for one purpose!
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Fascinating!!
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Yes, beautiful creature and amazing life – short but has a purpose!
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Prettiest moth I’ve ever seen!💗
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Exactly, I thought it was a butterfly until I read it!
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Thank you! Miriam, this is awesome. Funny it goes to Roth Poetry. Roth is my last name, and I’ve been getting really into poetry lately!!! 🙂
Cool. Have a great rest of your weekend.
Love, Debbie
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You’re welcome, Debbie! I want to write more poems also. I just read the biography of Emily Dickinson, and understand the way she wrote her poems. Hane a wonderful weekend, love, Miriam
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That’s awesome Miriam! I so support you and sending blessings, Debbie 🙂
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Thank you, Debbie!
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Gorgeous! I agree.
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Yes. I can’t resist reblogging the post.
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