[Closed] What's with all the moths?

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Hope the next cold snap wipes them out then, can't stand the little monsters.

I dislike them more since I found out they'd been eating the carpet in my lounge...

I like em, them and Flutterbyes, they're fragile and it tells me that all is well where they are. Like the canary/gas/mine thing. I prefer to be where they are.

Butterflies, fine. But moths... especially those big hairy ones... They zoom around the light and make that skkkkrkkskkrkr noise when their wings beat off the walls, then they fly directly into your ear, then fly off and hide until the second you relax then they do it again. They totally creep me out. Mottephobia is not an on-trend phobia unfortunately.

Also, they make a terrible mess when you smash them.

This is the Atlas Moth, which I once saw on a building wall in Thailand.

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Butterflies, fine. But moths... especially those big hairy ones... They zoom around the light and make that skkkkrkkskkrkr noise when their wings beat off the walls, then they fly directly into your ear, then fly off and hide until the second you relax then they do it again. They totally creep me out. Mottephobia is not an on-trend phobia unfortunately.

Also, they make a terrible mess when you smash them.

Well there's clearly an answer in what you've just said. Turn off the lights, sit in fear and don't try to hit them and you'll have no problems!

One of my mates (who was a junior DEFRA scientific advisor up until a few days ago) puts it down in part to an EU-wide ban on some of the stuff that is allowed in pesticides and commercial pest control products in the last couple of years. Not sure of the truth of it but there do seem to be lots of them about.