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: any of various usually nocturnal lepidopteran insects with antennae that are often feathery, with a stouter body, duller coloring, and proportionately smaller wings than the butterflies, and with larvae that are plant-eating caterpillars
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Tobacco hornworm moth larvae and cockroaches tend to their wounds when hurt.
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Bob Fischer, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
How to protect yourself from the southern flannel moth
Protecting yourself from the southern flannel moth is a simple as wearing long sleeves and pants to cover your limbs while doing yard work, LoPresti said, re-emphasizing that stings are rare.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 18 Mar. 2025
Researchers hypothesize that France might also be home to the moths, as the country has one of the largest populations of wild service trees.
—Rhiannon Saegert, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
The resulting model could identify a variety of coffee diseases with 96% to 98% accuracy, including fungal diseases such as Phoma, sooty mold, and rust, as well as the leaf miner moth.
—Bysandeep Ravindran, science.org, 20 Feb. 2025
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Bob Fischer, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
How to protect yourself from the southern flannel moth
Protecting yourself from the southern flannel moth is a simple as wearing long sleeves and pants to cover your limbs while doing yard work, LoPresti said, re-emphasizing that stings are rare.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 18 Mar. 2025
Researchers hypothesize that France might also be home to the moths, as the country has one of the largest populations of wild service trees.
—Rhiannon Saegert, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
The resulting model could identify a variety of coffee diseases with 96% to 98% accuracy, including fungal diseases such as Phoma, sooty mold, and rust, as well as the leaf miner moth.
—Bysandeep Ravindran, science.org, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Moth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moth. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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