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Who sees a moth and says "ew kill it?!" I don't know this person
Moths are considered pests because they can eat your clothes. Though personally ive never run into this because I've never had moths living in my house.
Im too lazy to Google but theres soemthing like 3x the moths to every butterfly species... Surely only one or two specifically eat human cloth materials
It's more like five or six, but yes they're highly specialized.
do those moths even eat polyester?
They only eat animal-based textiles, like leather, wool, or silk
The moths that eat your clothes are the larva and they’re teensy tiny so you probably wouldn’t see em.
Interesting I didn't know that
personally i've never run into this because i've never had clothes (/hj)
Moths are the one harmless thing I have an irrational fear of. A couple of times when I was very young a biggish moth got into my room a terrorized me (I'm guessing because of the way the light played off of my clothes).
I don't go out of my way to exterminate them, but if one follows me inside and resists my first couple of attempts to catch and release it, I'm going to smash the hell out of it.
I'm mostly over the visceral fear at this point, but if a big bastard is flying around a porch light I'm not sticking around.
Edit to add: I would probably smack a butterfly out of the air if it got in my face the way moths do. Equal opportunity irrationality.
I couldn't say why, but many of them freak me out. I don't tend to demand that someone kill it, but I feel the "ew."
A friend can't stand their flight pattern. It's too chaotic. I find misquitos and flies peskier, so I think this one might be a phobia.
It's their flight pattern for me too.
Also, I have never been in a place with enough butterflies that some would get in my face, or I might have ended up smacking some that catch me distracted.
That's interesting, there's something to that. They are hard to predict, and it puts me on edge. When they're just perched somewhere, it bothers me less.
Yeah, it goes deep. They used it to make Anthony Hopkins scarier for the Silence of the Lambs poster, so you're definitely not alone!
I like moths. I think they are neat, and I really wish them the best.
Until they get in my room, and fly into my face when I'm looking at my phone in bed. Then its time for them to die, because they never follow light out of my room or respond to being shooed out.