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Happy #NationalMothWeek! While it's well-known that moths are attracted to light, you can also lure them in with a concoction of ripe bananas, molasses, and stale beer. Caution: you might attract some humans with this, too. #MothFactMonday #Moths #TheMoth #ScienceFacts #MothWeek | The Moth

Tomorrow marks the first day of #nationalmothweek! National Moth Week celebrates the beauty, life cycles, and habitats of moths - it’s a citizen science effort to encouraged people to learn about, observe, and document moths in their backyards, parks, and neighborhoods. In my hand is Hyalophora cecropia that I raised, the largest native moth in North America. Such a beautiful pattern and wing span! Remarkably these big moths have no functional mouth parts, they simply live for one week in which