Summertime is a great time to hunt for the giant green Luna moth.But, it also brings up some common questions.
Where do moths they live?
What’s the difference between a moth and a butterfly?Here are some answers!
1. I captured an amazing moth! What kind is it?
Take a picture and upload it at the ButterfliesAndMoths.org, where it will be identified. You can also browse a database of the similar moths and see a map where they have been spotted.
No, according to David Hembry of the University of California at Berkeley. Butterflies generally have bright colors and fly during the day. Moths are bigger and have antennae that look like brushes.
3. What is a lepidopterist and why should I care?
Do you love butterflies and moths? Visit The Lepidopterists’ Society, and you can join a society of other people interested in the study of the thousands of butterflies and moths classified as “Lepidoptera.” If you sign up for $20, you’ll even get a net.
4. T/F Moths, not butterflies, are attracted to bright lights.
Generally true. Moths fly at night, butterflies don’t. At EarthSky.org, you learn that moths – and many other flying insects – are probably more disoriented by a close light source, which confuses them.
5. T/F You can ruin a moth’s wing by touching it.
This is a myth, sort of. While it is not good to touch a butterfly or moth, a moth’s wing is designed to lose tiny scales, which look like powder. But the moth can still fly. Read more at Science.HowStuffWorks.com.
6. T/F. If you feed a Luna moth some sugar water it will live longer.
False. A Luna moth has no mouth! At BugFacts.net you learn that the Luna Moth only lives for about a week, so if you spot one, you are very lucky. It flies using energy it stored up when it was a giant worm.
7. APPLICATIONS:
Attract a moths to your back yard at night: At Grandparents.com, you can learn how to make a recipe of sweet, sticky “moth broth” out of stuff like brown sugar and a ripe banana. Next, you paint a tree with the stuff, and come back at night with a light. Hopefully, the tree will be covered with giant moths!
Set up a butterfly tent: Every year in Chris Crowell’s Kindergarten class, he sets up a tent. It’s not to go camping. It’s to keep butterflies which come from worms that he buys at InsectLore.com. For $15, you can get about five caterpillars.
8. Want to see more?
Visit Children’s Technology Review’splaylist to view select YouTube videos based on topics in this month’s column.
White moths represent ancestors; black moths symbolize mortality, divinity, and universal secrets; and brown moths symbolize the need for life purification and the slow, unseen destruction of things; they also indicate that you should be careful about whom you believe.
The moth that has appeared in your life could be a sign that your inner wisdom is the key to facing life's challenges. If you keep seeing moths, it's time to get comfortable with endings. Moths represent transformation, and endings are an important part of this.
Although butterflies and moths are certainly delicate, they are much hardier than many people give them credit for. So the next time you encounter a butterfly or moth, don't be afraid to coax it onto your hand if it wishes to cooperate! Handle it gently, don't try to pet it, and enjoy its beauty!
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
In some cultures, it is considered bad luck. Conversely, in some cultures it is considered good luck. In Hawaii, for example, if a loved one has just died, it is believed that the moth is an embodiment of the person's soul returning to say goodbye.
By absorbing bats' high-pitched calls, moths become nearly invisible to bats. Such stealth camouflage is a true superpower, as the coating on moth wings is light enough to allow flight, while still absorbing all the sounds bats make.
Some moths make their own squeaking sound in order to confuse the bats hunting them. Some members of the Tiger Moth family, which in the daytime use bright colours to warn predators that they taste bitter, may use squeaks in the dark to warn bats of their bad taste.
Almost all moths are nocturnal, meaning that they are most active at night. Many species are drawn to electric lights. Scientists think that moths use the light of the moon to fly and so the light from electric lights confuses them. They seem to get lost and usually stay near the lights at night.
WHEN DO CLOTHES MOTHS EMERGE? Warmer winters, central heating and an increasing popularity of clothes made from natural fibres mean that clothes moths are now a year-long problem. There is, however, still a noticeable emergence in adult moths around April and May and a second wave in August and September.
No, adult moths do not bite. Moths are mostly harmless, fluttering insects. Because a moth's mouth parts are so small, it is not physically possible for it to bite a human, with few exceptions, including the “vampire moth." The most that will happen is the moth will leave behind a little dust as it flies away.
Rest assured, the kinds of moths that flutter around your room at night won't sting, bite, or otherwise hurt you. Still, you should probably try to catch and remove moths in your bedroom. After all, who wants to wake up to that throughout the night? No thanks!
They are excellent pollinators as adults, yet their larval stage is nearly always problematic for gardeners. We just have to accept them as they are. Shoo the moth out the door at night, and pick off the larvae from your cabbage leaves in the morning.
Many cultures around the world believe moths are the symbols of death. In Singapore, there is a popular belief that that moths are the spirits of the dead who have come back to visit their loved ones.
This is a common belief across the world; the Greek word for 'soul' and 'butterfly' is 'Psyche' and indeed, that name is used for a whole family of moths – the Bagworms – more on these later – and in India the Pierid genus Leptosia is known as 'Psyches'.
The Death's-head Hawk-moth is the rebel of the moth world. Strikingly large, with a skull-like marking on its thorax and the ability to squeak when alarmed, the moth was traditionally seen as an omen of death.
The legend both amongst the Dutch and the natives of the Cape of Good Hope, is, that this moth has a sting, and that a puncture from it causes instant death. This moth is generally found in beehives, particularly when they are in the ground or in decayed trees."
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4. T/F Moths, not butterflies, are attracted to bright lights.
5. T/F You can ruin a moth’s wing by touching it.
6. T/F. If you feed a Luna moth some sugar water it will live longer.
