Vampire Moths

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... sions.html



So...anoyone up to go on a bug hunt with me?

[Wii]

They suck blood because it is sweet, like fruit (I think)
I'm in 8-)

evolution? hahaha

[T1MT1M]

sure why not. ill bring the wooden stakes you bring the garlic  8-)

[Staiduk]

[quote]sure why not. ill bring the wooden stakes you bring the garlic

[expat]

As I suffer from Mottephobia (no it is a real word and I do), you will not mind if I give this link a miss :-/

Matt

[T1MT1M]

[quote][quote]sure why not. ill bring the wooden stakes you bring the garlic

[Staiduk]

As I suffer from Mottephobia (no it is a real word and I do), you will not mind if I give this link a miss :-/

Matt

That's too bad - any phobia is a bugger to deal with especially one with so ubiquitous a subject as moths. I don't know if this will help; but I was borderline mottephobic as well - if one came in the room I'd leave in a flying leap. If one got into my bedroom, I'd leopard-crawl out and throw the cat in as backup. (She was a cowardly little thing, but oooh, did she love hunting moths. Amazingly successful too - never took more than 5 minutes to zap 'em.)

Funny though; while I still don't like 'em much, I got over my fear, simply because of something I watched on the TV. A popular Canadian science show, 'The Nature Nut' featured Dr. John Acorn - an Edmonton entomologist - sharing his enthusiasm of the natural world. He mentioned in a show about moths and butterflies - and I could be remembering this wrong here - that the only real difference between moths and butterflies scientifically speaking is that butterflies have clubbed antennae, while moths have feathery or straight antennae - or something like that.

So after that, while I still don't like 'em; at least as much as I like butterflies, some of the horror is gone. Not sure if that'll help at all Matt, just thought I'd share it.

[expat]

As I suffer from Mottephobia (no it is a real word and I do), you will not mind if I give this link a miss :-/

Matt

That's too bad - any phobia is a bugger to deal with especially one with so ubiquitous a subject as moths. I don't know if this will help; but I was borderline mottephobic as well - if one came in the room I'd leave in a flying leap. If one got into my bedroom, I'd leopard-crawl out and throw the cat in as backup. (She was a cowardly little thing, but oooh, did she love hunting moths. Amazingly successful too - never took more than 5 minutes to zap 'em.)

Funny though; while I still don't like 'em much, I got over my fear, simply because of something I watched on the TV. A popular Canadian science show, 'The Nature Nut' featured Dr. John Acorn - an Edmonton entomologist - sharing his enthusiasm of the natural world. He mentioned in a show about moths and butterflies - and I could be remembering this wrong here - that the only real difference between moths and butterflies scientifically speaking is that butterflies have clubbed antennae, while moths have feathery or straight antennae - or something like that.

So after that, while I still don't like 'em; at least as much as I like butterflies, some of the horror is gone. Not sure if that'll help at all Matt, just thought I'd share it.

There is another big difference, butterfly's fold their wings and moths don't. I have no idea why or where this came from. I am fine with butterfly's. If a moth is in the room, you can be sure I am not. I think half the problem is that butterfly's fly, but moths just have a manic approach and fly all over the place rather than from A to B. Even pictures or video will make the hair on the back of my neck stand up and a strange vibrating noise in my ears :-? It does become rather annoying at times. A while back at work, we had an aircraft with a problem. as I entered the cockpit, a moth followed. You can imagine the conversation with maintenance control, "guys, we have two problems, the aircraft has a snag and a moth in the cockpit". I had to wait until another tech arrived before we could start rectification. And had to explain to my boss what the problem was. Fortunately he has a deathly fear of spiders so he was sympathetic.

Matt

[Souichiro]

Would be cool if this were just the first species to go Vampire..

Vampire cats.... now that would be cool!