Moths

My work on moths dealt with the predominate mode of conspecific mate recognition in moths, the sex pheromone system. ❋ Ewillett (2008)

As an example of adaptation via natural selection, the ratio of dark to light moths is presumed not to have changed (there were always both), the light colored ones just get eaten more often by birds, leaving mostly dark colored moths as survivors. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And I believe that the glare of the electric lights, reflected in the sky, at night, does more to attract the moths from the country than the desire for worldly gain. ❋ Unknown (1920)

No wonder the Greeks called moths by the same name as the soul: psyche. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

In the rain forest garden, "above the moths were the bananas, their ripped-up leaves moving like fingers, and below was the inky green of rain forest where arm-thick vines wound around trees with skins like elephants." ❋ Schine, Cathleen (2008)

Moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths; they do not excite that pleasant sense of dark autumn nights and ivy – blossom which the commonest yellow – underwing asleep in the shadow of the curtain never fails to rouse in us. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Now the only light in the auditorium was caused by the glow of the vampire moths, and that glow illuminated nothing, as if the moths were the only bright creatures in the universe, and all else was forever darkness. ❋ Cover, Arthur Byron (1979)

Hence epitomes have been called the moths of just history; they eat out the poetry of it. ❋ Various (N/A)

So "mother's lamp" burned steadily, while the philosophers built a new heaven and earth by moonlight; and through all the metaphysical mists and philanthropic pyrotechnics of that period Sister Hope played her own little game of "throwing light," and none but the moths were the worse for it. ❋ Various (N/A)

And yet they are the trees of the Lord; the moths are his also, and the caring for them. ❋ Dallas Lore Sharp (1899)

It has also been observed -- an important fact when considered with the history of the frog's egg and the needle -- that "brushing" the unfertilised eggs of the silkworm and other moths, that is to say, gently polishing the little egg-shells with a soft camel's-hair brush, has the effect of starting development. ❋ Unknown (1888)

The electric lights of Broadway were glowing -- calling moths from miles, from leagues, from hundreds of leagues out of darkness around to come in and attend the singeing school. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

To call the moths of the countryside to the wedding-feast, to warn them at a distance and to guide them the nubile female emits an odour of extreme subtlety, imperceptible to our own olfactory sense-organs. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

Lamps to call moths are plenty, and Lufa was herself one. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Traps placed high in the tree canopy catch more moths, which is particularly useful in orchards with low populations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The moths are the adult form of the sod webworm, and they lay eggs in your grass. ❋ Bill Lamson-Scribner (2009)

_rejoice_ has in it the idea of moths playing around a candle, or of children dancing around a torch-light, as it burns lower and lower. ❋ Unknown (1888)

[hehe] [man] that is moths ❋ Nahasalamapitila (2005)

[MOTH] [NEED] [THE LAMP] ❋ Xx___NOTAMOTH___xX (2018)

Moth is [attracted] [to the] [Lämp] ❋ Möth (2018)

She [broke up] with her [boyfriend] and now [the Moth]’s are all over her! ❋ Shmoop-Dog (2021)

i've [never heard] moth speak before but i've heard tell of it [happening] you've heard of [mothman], now get ready for moth it's them, my friend moth! ❋ Brellas (2018)

Moth Like [Lamp] ❋ AAtticus (2018)

i'm [off out] [with me] moth [tonight]. ❋ Jnb (2004)

Moth ❋ CactusPete (2021)

[Yo], [that dude] is [mothe]! ❋ I'm Jack (2007)

When you see your significant other or the person you are interested in enter into the room, you [get excited] and feel [butterflies] in your stomach. When you see your ex with someone else, you [get sick] and upset and feel The Moths in your stomach. ❋ Ihavethemoths. (2012)