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Fri, Jul 06, 2007

Moths

Posted at 10:45 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

The weird weather this year may have had one advantage. Some years we are afflicted by a plague of miller moths in May and June, but this year there haven't been very many yet. I've got a couple fluttering around in the house, but it makes a refreshing change fromt e years when there were thousands outside and dozens inside.

I had a cat, Shadow, who looked like the grey tabbies that wore little red smeakers in the art of R Kliban. He used to stare up at the moths and make little frustrated noises because he couldn't get at them. If he did manage to catch a few, he ate them, and then gagged horribly. They are called miller moths because they have lots of loose powder on their wings.

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