You"re forgiven if this is the first you"re hearing of National Moth Week, even though it"s been going strong for eight years as a global call to learn about and observe the fuzzy little insects. All too often dismissed as pesky, drab counterparts to our brightly fluttering friends the butterflies, moths seem to hog every light but the spotlight. But they don"t need flashy marketing to win the numbers game: With an estimated 160,000 moth species (though some estimates go up to half a million), they vastly outnumber their swaggering butterfly cousins in the Lepidoptera order.
The moth wonderful time of the year
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Headed to the High Country
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A bohemian feline
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A plot was afoot
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A good time in the Badlands
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It’s not a pinecone, it’s a pangolin
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Spotted Lake emerges
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Happy Hobbit Day
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Cannes, France, in the spotlight
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Lionfish off the coast of Indonesia
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Roman theater of Cartagena, Spain
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Sea fireflies at the seashore
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Is this Minecraft headquarters?
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Feature Attraction: 85 years at the drive-in
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It s Tolkien Reading Day
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Class, please take out a No. 2 pencil…
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Bask in the glow—It s World Turtle Day
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Whales in winter
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Let s get lost
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The Crown Jewel of the North Atlantic
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What the hay?