Tag: moth
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Pink Horn
It’s the horns of a dilemma, no question about it. ~Steven Jeffrey Melissa needed a few caterpillars for a teacher workshop this week, so I went out the other night with our UV flashlight to scan the vegetation around the house. A reminder that many species of caterpillars glow under UV light at night, making Read more…
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Museum Moth Night
The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame… ~Mohsin Hamid Last night we participated in the NC Museum of Natural Sciences’ National Moth Week live event (well, Melissa worked it and I just rambled around taking pictures through my fogged glasses). It was a great start to National Moth Read more…
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Moth Royalty
In the jungle, during one night in each month, the moths did not come to the lanterns; through the black reaches of the outer night, so it was said, they flew toward the full moon. ~ Peter Matthiessen Lucky for me, that wasn’t the case this past weekend, even though an almost full moon shone Read more…
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