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
Today in History
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Storseisundet Bridge, Norway
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World Space Week begins
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Rideau Canal Skateway in Ottawa, Canada
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Queen Elizabeth s Platinum Jubilee
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Congratulations, 2019 Nobel Prize laureates!
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Art Basel Miami Beach
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European Day of Parks
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Cousins Day
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Hippo family in Chobe National Park, Botswana
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The tallest animal in the world on the longest day of the year
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Celebrating Flag Day: ‘O long may it wave’
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World Whale Day
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Combating extinction with citizen science
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Fiddlehead fern fronds
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Giving Tuesday
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Black History Month
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Yungang Grottoes, Shanxi, China
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San Francisco’s City Hall illuminated by the iconic colors of Pride
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Remembering Krakatoa
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This reef is nowhere near the sea…
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To Roswell, and beyond!
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Lake Tai s cherry trees in bloom
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Methoni Castle, Messenia, Greece
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National Audubon Society s Christmas Bird Count
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Taughannock Falls State Park
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Snow buntings take flight
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World Architecture Day
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The Unfinished Obelisk near Aswan, Egypt
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Noctilucent clouds
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Churún Merú waterfall in Venezuela
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