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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Night of the ‘Cold Moon’
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Space-age style by the sea
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Can you see the family resemblance?
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Pont dArcole over the Seine river, Paris, France
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White Desert National Park, Egypt
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Happy 300th, NOLA!
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Bobbio, Italy
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Royal Alcázar of Seville, Spain
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Northern cardinal in winterberry bush
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The village of Castelluccio above the Piano Grande, Umbria, Italy
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The island fox’s incredible comeback
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Big wheels on a big mountain
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World Childrens Day
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Clouds over the River of Grass
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The lemurs of Madagascar
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Happy International Astronomy Day!
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Native American Heritage Month
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Golden Bridge, Bà Nà Hills, Da Nang, Vietnam
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Make your way up a picturesque passageway of Chefchaouen
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Gray seal sleeping on the beach, Orkney Islands, Scotland
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A Festivus for the rest of us
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Busy building wetlands
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Tolkien Reading Day
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Zelenci Nature Reserve, Slovenia
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Fashion models of the avian world
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Cheers! It’s National Wine Day
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Indigenous living
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Valentines Day
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Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
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Atolls in the Maldives
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