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Atlas moth
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Real-world info
Name: Attacus atlas Family: Saturniidae
Main appearances
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Other appearances
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Names in other languages  ヨナグニサン  皇蛾  Attacus Atlas  Polilla atlas  Farfalla cobra  Павлиноглазка атлас  아틀라스나방  皇蛾  Attacus Atlas  Polilla atlas  Atlasspinner  Atlasvlinder

The Atlas moth is a bug in the Animal Crossing series. The Atlas moth first appeared in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and was later added to Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. It is a huge moth that is similar to the oak silk moth from previous games, for which it is a replacement.

In the games that the Atlas moth appears in, it is a rare bug that the player can encounter, and can be found on trees during the night. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it can be caught from mid spring to the start of fall.

Catch details

In New Horizons

#14

"I caught an Atlas moth! I bet it never gets lost!"

Time of year	North: Apr – Sep South: Oct – Mar
Time of day	7 PM – 4 AM
Location	On trees (any kind)
Weather	Any weather
Spawn requirement	Catch 20 total bugs
Selling prices	Nook's Cranny:  3,000 Bells  Flick:  4,500 Bells
Furniture size

Donating to the museum

In New Horizons

Blathers has this to say about the Atlas moth:

"The Atlas moth is a monstrous thing! Not only is it one of the largest moths in the world...The tips of its wings look rather like the heads of venomous snakes! Despite its largeness and loathsome looks, the adult Atlas moth lives only for a few days. It emerges from its cocoon without a mouth, you see...and so cannot eat. I feel for the poor thing... but it is still foul!"

Commissioning a model

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, if the player brings three Atlas moths to Flick to commission a model, he will say the following:

"R-really? You want a sculpture of an Atlas moth? The ghost who flutters like a bug? Their brief lives are a tragedy that no one will ever hear, for they have no mouths to tell it! I promise this will be my silent-est masterpiece, and I shall title it The Grand Atlas Moth!"

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Real-world information

The Atlas moth is one of the largest lepidopterans with a wingspan measuring up to 24 cm (9.4 in) and a wing surface area of about 160 cm2 (~25 in2). It is only surpassed in wingspan by the white witch (Thysania agrippina) and in wing surface area by the Hercules moth (Coscinocera hercules). As in most Lepidoptera, females are noticeably larger and heavier than males, while males have broader antennae.

The body is disproportionately small compared to the wings. The upperside of the wings are reddish brown with a pattern of black, white, pink, and purple lines and triangular, scale-less windows bordered in black. The undersides of the wings are paler. Both forewings have a prominent extension at the top.

The Atlas moth has no mouth; every flight takes valuable energy and can take days off their already short lives, as it has a very short life span of only one to two weeks. They conserve energy by flying as little as possible. A female will wait for a male to come along and be fertilised, lay eggs and die.

Atlas moths are a saturniid moth, a group that includes the famous luna moth. Despite what their common name suggests, they are only distant cousins of the domestic silk moth (Bombyx mori) which belong to the family Bombycidae. More information on this topic is available at Wikipedia.

Names in other languages

	ヨナグニサン yonagunisan	Name of subspecies A. atlas ryukyuensis, lit. "Yonaguni silkmoth"
	아틀라스나방 ateullaseunabang	Atlas moth
	皇蛾 huáng-é	Atlas moth (lit. "royal moth")
	Павлиноглазка атлас Pavlinoglazka atlas	Atlas moth
	Atlasvlinder	Atlas moth
	Atlasspinner	Atlas moth
	Polilla atlas	Atlas moth
	Attacus Atlas	From scientific name
	Farfalla cobra	Atlas moth (lit. "cobra butterfly")

Notes

Pocket Camp bugs

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