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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Invisible no longer
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Cheese! We ll go somewhere where there s cheese!
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Staircase of turquoise pools
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Happy birthday, Saguaro National Park
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A great white egret in Hungary
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Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Seville celebrates first world tour
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World Meteorological Day
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Purple flowers and Golden Week
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International Day of the World s Indigenous Peoples
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Does this chameleon look a little insecure?
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Great gray owls in their nest, Finland
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An opulent backdrop for a historic event
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National Park Week: Guadalupe Mountains National Park
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Ronda, Spain
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Castelmezzano, Italy
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Crescent Lake near Dunhuang, China
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The moai you know
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Oh, to sleep under the northern lights
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Black Fell in England s Lake District
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Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, East Java, Indonesia
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Cosplay strongly encouraged
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Red-leaf hunting in Japan
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Remembering Jimmy Carter
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The Gothic Gate in the Adršpach-Teplice Rocks, Czechia
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We re gonna need a bigger birdhouse
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Tassili n’Ajjer, Sahara, Algeria
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A gentle wind fills this sail
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What the hay?
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Mount Field National Park, Tasmania, Australia
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