Simviation Forum - Vampire Moths

Nov 18^th, 2008 at 9:01pm

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081027-vampire-moth-evolution-ha...

So...anoyone up to go on a bug hunt with me? Grin

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Reply #1 - Nov 18^th, 2008 at 9:34pm

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They suck blood because it is sweet, like fruit (I think)
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Reply #2 - Nov 19^th, 2008 at 12:29am

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sure why not. ill bring the wooden stakes you bring the garlic Cool

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Reply #3 - Nov 19^th, 2008 at 4:49am

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T1MT1M wrote on Nov 19^th, 2008 at 12:29am:

sure why not. ill bring the wooden stakes you bring the garlic Cool

...and I'll bring the butter and a frying pan. Them li'l buggers are tasty once you get the wings off. Grin

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Reply #4 - Nov 19^th, 2008 at 4:51am

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As I suffer from Mottephobia (no it is a real word and I do), you will not mind if I give this link a miss Undecided

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Reply #5 - Nov 19^th, 2008 at 8:21am

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Staiduk wrote on Nov 19^th, 2008 at 4:49am:

T1MT1M wrote on Nov 19^th, 2008 at 12:29am:

sure why not. ill bring the wooden stakes you bring the garlic Cool

...and I'll bring the butter and a frying pan. Them li'l buggers are tasty once you get the wings off. Grin

ITS A COOK UP Grin

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Reply #6 - Nov 20^th, 2008 at 2:56am

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expat wrote on Nov 19^th, 2008 at 4:51am:

As I suffer from Mottephobia (no it is a real word and I do), you will not mind if I give this link a miss Undecided

Matt

That's too bad - any phobia is a bugger to deal with especially one with so ubiquitous a subject as moths. I don't know if this will help; but I was borderline mottephobic as well - if one came in the room I'd leave in a flying leap. If one got into my bedroom, I'd leopard-crawl out and throw the cat in as backup. (She was a cowardly little thing, but oooh, did she love hunting moths. Amazingly successful too - never took more than 5 minutes to zap 'em.)

Funny though; while I still don't like 'em much, I got over my fear, simply because of something I watched on the TV. A popular Canadian science show, 'The Nature Nut' featured Dr. John Acorn - an Edmonton entomologist - sharing his enthusiasm of the natural world. He mentioned in a show about moths and butterflies - and I could be remembering this wrong here - that the only real difference between moths and butterflies scientifically speaking is that butterflies have clubbed antennae, while moths have feathery or straight antennae - or something like that.

So after that, while I still don't like 'em; at least as much as I like butterflies, some of the horror is gone. Not sure if that'll help at all Matt, just thought I'd share it.

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Reply #7 - Nov 20^th, 2008 at 6:24am

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Staiduk wrote on Nov 20^th, 2008 at 2:56am:

expat wrote on Nov 19^th, 2008 at 4:51am:

As I suffer from Mottephobia (no it is a real word and I do), you will not mind if I give this link a miss Undecided

Matt

That's too bad - any phobia is a bugger to deal with especially one with so ubiquitous a subject as moths. I don't know if this will help; but I was borderline mottephobic as well - if one came in the room I'd leave in a flying leap. If one got into my bedroom, I'd leopard-crawl out and throw the cat in as backup. (She was a cowardly little thing, but oooh, did she love hunting moths. Amazingly successful too - never took more than 5 minutes to zap 'em.)

Funny though; while I still don't like 'em much, I got over my fear, simply because of something I watched on the TV. A popular Canadian science show, 'The Nature Nut' featured Dr. John Acorn - an Edmonton entomologist - sharing his enthusiasm of the natural world. He mentioned in a show about moths and butterflies - and I could be remembering this wrong here - that the only real difference between moths and butterflies scientifically speaking is that butterflies have clubbed antennae, while moths have feathery or straight antennae - or something like that.

So after that, while I still don't like 'em; at least as much as I like butterflies, some of the horror is gone. Not sure if that'll help at all Matt, just thought I'd share it.

There is another big difference, butterfly's fold their wings and moths don't. I have no idea why or where this came from. I am fine with butterfly's. If a moth is in the room, you can be sure I am not. I think half the problem is that butterfly's fly, but moths just have a manic approach and fly all over the place rather than from A to B. Even pictures or video will make the hair on the back of my neck stand up and a strange vibrating noise in my ears Huh

It does become rather annoying at times. A while back at work, we had an aircraft with a problem. as I entered the cockpit, a moth followed. You can imagine the conversation with maintenance control, "guys, we have two problems, the aircraft has a snag and a moth in the cockpit". I had to wait until another tech arrived before we could start rectification. And had to explain to my boss what the problem was. Fortunately he has a deathly fear of spiders so he was sympathetic.

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Reply #8 - Nov 20^th, 2008 at 9:27am

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Would be cool if this were just the first species to go Vampire..

Vampire cats.... now that would be cool!

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