| 单词 | moth |
| 例句 | He wanted her hand clasped in his, not her moth perched on it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The Agriculture Department itself has credited these importations with appreciably reducing the frequency and destructiveness of gypsy moth outbreaks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But in the weeks and months that followed, she witnessed many moths chewing through fuzzy cocoons, crawling out, and pumping up their wings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Below him the blazing whaler drew emergency vehicles like moths to a light. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z There were new clothes to buy for all of them, and the old ones to pack away in moth balls. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z "Our little lives are no more than a flicker of a moth's wing to them," Dany said, remembering. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The others were peppering her with questions—questions she couldn’t answer because her moths hadn’t yet come back to her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The chemical has also destroyed some important insect predators and so has caused an increase in the tortricids — small, stout-bodied moths whose larvae scar the surface of the bananas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A girl even smaller than me runs toward us before she bursts into moths that fly into my hair and make me near jump right out of my skin. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And the moths came down and fluttered about the pool as the daylight mixed into the darkness. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She still found time to search out caterpillars, moths, and butterflies, tucking them away in the corner of her kitchen where she could observe and sketch each stage of their lives. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Department’s Plant Pest Control men had temporarily forgotten gypsy moths, for they had been busy launching an even more ambitious program in the South. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her moths found the sleepers in their beds. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi’s moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As the strength went out of her, her blows became moths fluttering about his face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And when Sarai saw herself in the mirror again before sending out her moths, she thought that she looked more like a wild forest spirit than the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Like two moths clumsily bumping together, with no more weight than that, their lips touched. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At first it was like moth wings brushing my lips, then his mouth opening on mine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a kind of moth that had adapted to Drosophila genetics laboratories. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The peach fan beat the air like a giant moth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Not with dread, but agitation lest it shouldn’t work, and...excitement—as wild and soft as a chaos of moth wings—lest it should. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The Department’s all-out chemical war on the gypsy moth began on an ambitious scale. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The moth fluttered over his head like it was laughing at him. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The moths perched on their brows, or on the ridges of their cheekbones. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Her daemon’s name was Pantalaimon, and he was currently in the form of a moth, a dark brown one so as not to show up in the darkness of the hall. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths so that he could "come over" some afternoon to a stranger's garden. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Usually it was a moth thudding against a window. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Your letter—the first one received at my Montana home—arrived so full of holes I thought the moths had got into it. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z With a deep breath, Sarai disengaged a moth from the ledge and spurred it forward, a single smithereen of darkness dispatched into the dim. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I gave her the pulverized wing of a spotted oak moth. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z These moth ideas were difficult to fix in my head, and the flames devoured them before I could focus on any one long enough to see it clearly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The room then became vulnerable to dust, heat, termites, red ants, and moths, who would turn the wisdom of the parchments into sawdust. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z If they’d slept at all they’d have risen early to meet her as soon as her moths returned, and hear what she had to tell. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I want you to get it out of here. That’s a moth, for pity’s sake. Imagine what something that size would do to the woollens!” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I felt his hand, lighter than a moth’s wing, brushing my damp hair back, so that his lips could touch the hollow beneath my ear. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Her eyes moved this way and that as she watched the moth. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z A butterfly, maybe a moth, had gotten into the room. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But she didn’t eat the moths, in any case. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Rahel watched him and her cold moth spread its wings again. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, Hooper walked up and down the room softly, looking at all the moths, laid out on white card, and at the labels beneath them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Spectacular butterflies and moths from faraway South America glittered in his cases. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z From across the dark field, the trailer’s windows glowed, beckoning me as if I had no more willpower than a moth drawn to a candle’s flame. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Under my fingers, my heart is beating like a moth wild in a lamp shade. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair, however, was as gray and dusty as moth wings, and her sagging wrinkled skin almost hung off her face like a worn leather sack. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Younger women opened their pagnes and ran forward, fanning the flames like moths dancing before a candle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt a little like the burgeoning of moths at darkfall, but it was something much more dangerous than moths. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He did not say whether the stiff moths, inside their glass cases, interested him or not. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The aim is to confuse the male moth and alter the normal behavior so that, in the welter of attractive scents, he cannot find the true scent trail leading to the female. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The creature’s wings were crushed flat against its body at first, but soon they opened, and Doon saw what his green worm had become: a moth with light brown wings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He flopped back onto his pillows and looked up at the moths on his ceiling beam. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He dared not stand up, or crawl back towards the light under the door, now, because of what there might be in the shed, rats, or moths, or a bat in the ceiling. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z But the only sound was the wind in the fruit trees, and the only creatures in the gardens were a few pale moths. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The night felt very long, but it ended as all nights do, and Sarai called her moths home. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Along with the classes for hogs and cattle and home preserves, a category for moths. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z A black moth on a moonless night would not have escaped Shadow’s notice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Rahel stopped and turned around, and on her heart a drab moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts unfurled its predatory wings. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Her tumid eyes filled with tears and she began to cry, rocking back and forth slowly in her chair with her hands lying in her lap like fallen moths. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She had seen them with her moths' eyes, inert as they were now, but she had also seen them as they were before, through the dreams of the people of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, suggestions are heard here and there that these sterilizing chemicals might be applied as aerial sprays — for example, to coat the foliage chewed by gypsy moth larvae. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Maybe he brought all the dread with him from the guard station and the brutal, bloody words of his friends, and maybe the moths brought some of it on their furred twilight wings. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At once, the whole moth, already years dead, disintegrated, collapsing into a soft, formless heap of dark dust. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “As soon as it’s clear, we’ll have to run. Be a moth,” she added. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Bando,” I say, “Pigs are omnivores. We’ve got to think snakes, fungi, grasshoppers, and big juicy moths as well as bulbs and roots.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He had an uncanny knowledge of wildlife and was not afraid of dogs or cats or beetles or moths, or of foods like scrod or tripe. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Who would ever want to kiss a girl who eats moths?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The moth on his hand had been peeled away and snuffed out of existence, and for all she knew, he had been, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to hear them argue, but like a moth near a candle, I couldn’t pull myself away, either. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote all sorts of books about moths.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She was still in his room with him when, up in her own, she parted her lips to receive her moths home. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The moth’s wings rose and fell, but he wasn’t looking at the moth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They sprinkled in moth flakes and latched the trunk closed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z When he opened his mouth to speak, his lies turned to pale grey moths and took wing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They would say a flock of moths came, frantic, and tried to lift her away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There sat Beatty, perspiring gently, the floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm Mildred stopped screaming as quickly as she started. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra couldn’t see Pantalaimon, but she knew his moth form was resting on her shoulder and probably shivering too. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “It might be,” Pantalaimon said austerely, in his tiny moth voice. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When a moth perched on a sleeper’s brow, Sarai was plunged into their dream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Entomologists have taken advantage of this fact for a good many years, laboriously preparing this sex attractant from the bodies of the female moths. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The warmth of his brow beneath her moth reassured her, and the sight of him across the table. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “He turned out to be not so much a butterfly as a moth, you see,” I said, holding the jar out to show her. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The moth on Rahel’s heart spread its velvet wings, and the chill crept into her bones. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Faber was a grey moth asleep in his ear, for the moment. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaves fell around him like hot fluttering moths while branches withered to embers and ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In the years to come, even though he had been ill-humored long before he discovered the moth, Pappachi’s Moth was held responsible for his black moods and sudden bouts of temper. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He might have doubted that he’d seen anything at all if, at that moment, the one-hundredth moth hadn’t tumbled off his brow to fall dead into his lap. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The contamination of milk and of farm produce in the course of the gypsy moth spraying came as an unpleasant surprise to many people. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Now with the lights on, they shuffle closer, drawn like moths to the moonlight. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Now that I had shined it on him, this poor blind moth couldn’t resist my light. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He shook it, trying to clear it, and the moths on his brow and cheeks took flight and fluttered around his head in a corona. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She was in his mind, which meant he was alive—and her moth that was perched on his lips could feel the faint stir of breath—but where was he? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They came boiling out between her lips, and they weren’t demons after all, but moths. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And so it was that in the giddy, sultry world of their embrace, the real Lazlo—fast asleep in the city of Weep—turned over on his pillow, crushed the moth, and broke the dream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I had no idea moths could get to be that size. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Light as the brush of a moth wing across the sweet ripe fruit with its crease in the middle, as soft as apricot down. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Butterfly bodies and legs are thin and sleek.Some moth caterpillars have stinging hairs and must be handled very carefully. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Carl struck with a cupped palm and caught the moth and broke it. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The bats were hunting among the flies and moths attracted to the soapwort. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She agonized a bit over the hijab, its being green and not matching the dress, but it would have to do—moths had eaten holes into her white one. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Overhead, moths clustered on the ceiling beam like a branch in dark bloom. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z How does a male moth find his female even if she is miles away? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z She is a pale, round moth, dusted with eggshell foundation, armed for the day with her banker’s briefcase, purse and remote starter for the leased SUV. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Gregor thought it might be more bats, but on closer inspection he saw it was a cloud of tiny black moths. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Harry said, “Too bad. I’d have liked to see him in the pet show. Step right up, folks, come and see Calpurnia Virginia Tate and her giant pet moth!” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Then he displayed the moth—quivering, shimmering faintly—in his palm: Bloom nodded, not knowing what to say, how to react. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I find an amazing, fantastical fabric embroidered with moths and butterflies and ferns and flowers. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Behind her is a large circle of blank screens, like moths circling a flame. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The moth waved its feathery feelers and took a few steps along the wilted cabbage leaf. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The moth settled down, and she went to sleep. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The autumn before last, I’d seen two adult screechers eating spotted oak moths. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z This nurse’s was a pretty bird, just as neat and incurious as Sister Clara's dog, and the doctor’s was a large heavy moth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The gypsy moth lure was the first insect sex attractant to be synthesized, but probably there will soon be others. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Images of my possible paths darted through my mind like moths flitting about a fire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z She combined images of its egg, larval stage, its pupa, and the butterfly or moth that “crept from” the chrysalis or cocoon. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Most moths, but not all, fly at night. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Department of Agriculture, in a Home and Garden Bulletin, advises us to spray our clothing with oil solutions of DDT, dieldrin, chlordane, or any of several other moth killers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z By now Father had hung huge models of the flying machines—some up to six feet in wingspan—from the rafters, and these would twist and turn as if they were giant captive moths. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Crickets clicked in the rough grass, and moths fluttered in the starlight. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Two or three stout-bodied moths circled the lamp that stood upon the harpsichord. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Most everyone in the neighborhood has stepped out of their home to marvel at our light—like moths entranced by the lick of a hot campfire flame. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was fluttery, like a moth that has hurt itself and is flapping in crooked circles. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And it occurred to me what I had seen in Lynn’s eyes the night before: She was wishing she were that moth. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I expect moths to nibble holes In everything I wear. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Down in the basement either Gretchen was practicing her piano or the cat was chasing a moth across the keys. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She has studied the creatures that ride on their petals: the soft green bodies of caterpillars, the shiny armor of beetles, the delicate wings of moths. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z OPPOSITE: Plate 12 from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, showing a banana flower and young bananas, Maria also includes a saturniid moth with its caterpillar, cocoon, and pupa. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The last thing I remember is an exquisitely beautiful greenand-silver moth landing on the curve of my wrist. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Our room was so quiet, I could just make out the sound of the moth’s wings. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He can reach up and touch the frosted white light fixture suspended from the ceiling, filled with dead moths. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Parasites and predators of the gypsy moth achieved good control, as did the Tiphia wasp against the Japanese beetle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her throat constricted as those fingers, cold, so cold, traced the length of her jaw, the curve of her ear, the hollows of her neck, where a pulse fluttered like a dying moth. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The words seemed to curl up in her belly—not moths now but snakes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Who would ever want to kiss a girl who eats moths? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He laid the dead moth on the bedside table and fell back to sleep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A moth had come in the door and was trying to beat itself to death on the light over the kitchen sink. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Mo shrugged his shoulders and looked up at the ceiling, where a few moths were fluttering around the naked lightbulb. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Ashes fluttered like moths, and Dedd ground them to dust on the floor. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Long Island area included within the gypsy moth spraying in 1957 consisted chiefly of heavily populated towns and suburbs and of some coastal areas with bordering salt marsh. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Certainly. Flies, bugs, grasshoppers, choice beetles, moths, butterflies, tasty cockroaches, gnats, midges, daddy longlegs, centipedes, mosquitoes, crickets—anything that is careless enough to get caught in my web. I have to live, don’t I?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Lazlo wasn’t thinking about the moths—though he did recollect, now, the one that had fallen dead from his brow on his first morning waking up in Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The repellant effect of bursts of ultrasonic sound is being tested in Canada against corn borer and cutworm moths. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Lightning bugs blink; fish splash, leaping for moths, flies. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z “It’s a moth. Callie, did you know it was going to be a moth?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She usually avoided the monster, but now she sent a cluster of her moths winging nearer. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In her shock, she’d severed the connection and left the moth on the dreamer’s brow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The hock-shop prospered on the weekly interest money and the suit benefited by being brushed and hung away in camphor where the moths couldn’t get at it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She captured both butterflies and moths, studying their differences. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The moths were no bigger than the startled mouths of children, and even dozens together could only pluck at the strands of her darkening hair until their wings sagged, sodden with her blood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In eastern forests of Canada and the United States bacterial insecticides may be one important answer to the problems of such forest insects as the budworms and the gypsy moth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Within his cage, he fluttered like a burning leaf, a moth caught in a candle flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It seeped a pallid light into the citadel’s gloom and turned the moth to smoke on the table. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then DDT promised to “obliterate the nightmare” of codling moth outbreaks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The gypsy moth program shows what a vast amount of damage can be done when reckless large-scale treatment is substituted for local and moderate control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Men cluster to me like moths around a flame, and if their wings burn, I know I’m not to blame. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps the most troublesome situation concerns the codling moth, which is now resistant to DDT in practically all of the world’s apple-growing regions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She believed that all creatures—including butterflies and moths—reflected God’s glory and the infinite variety of his creation. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Yes, every sort of moth in the world.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Taking his newspaper with him as he escorted Meggie to the lavatory, he killed three more moths and a butterfly that was fluttering helplessly from wall to bare wall. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Every moth, every wingbeat carried the oppressive burden of the ghost army, and of vengeance, and the weight of another Carnage. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In unsprayed orchards the moths were not abundant enough to cause real trouble. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She saw his heart burning through his chest, and in an instant he was gone, consumed like a moth by a candle, turned to ash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It seemed to land as lightly as a moth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Cardan has stopped beside a boy with long copper hair and a pair of small moth wings—a boy who isn’t bowing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The gypsy moth, which in its larval stage attacks the foliage of oak trees and a few other hardwoods for a few weeks each spring, now occurs in all the New England states. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He left the house, Sarai’s moth still perched on his hand. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The gypsy moth is a forest insect, certainly not an inhabitant of cities. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her moths wheeled apart, cutting through the blowing smoke until they found another figure sprawled out flat and still. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The boys quivered on the edges of their seats like moths fighting to be freed of cocoons. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The moths weren’t...they weren’t scraps of rag. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It’s like all of a sudden he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture and swan-neck shadows and in our bones. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The moths tested the terrace doors first, but found most of them closed, and far too well made for any cracks that might admit them, so they flew down the chimneys instead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She offered to have the land checked for gypsy moths and to have any infestation destroyed by spot spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Every night Sarai split her mind a hundred ways, her moths carrying pieces of her consciousness through the city, and when they came back to her, she was whole again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z With all her moths divided among so few rooms, she was able to study each person from multiple vantage points and take in every detail of them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In the real room, her moth took stock of real Lazlo, the relaxation of his face, and his long, easy limbs, loose in slumber. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A silk moth after emerging from its cocoon. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The moth lifts off and disappears into the night. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z A moth lands in the corner then flutters away, leaving a brown smudge of wing chalk. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “You shine with virtue, and the light drew me like a moth to flame,” he replied. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Instead of blood pouring from his wound, red moths stream out, into the air. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I thought that moth was a goner, for sure.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Silver jets in a blue church sky, like moths in a beam of light. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sarai directed a score of moths to it to grasp the weave with their tiny feet and shift it back just enough to uncover a slice of light. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He was wearing an unusually battered fedora—the brim drooping, the crown riddled with moth holes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My mind fluttered like the moths that veiled the street lamp which cast shadows upon the bank of grass below me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a muggy, moonlit night filled with gnats, moths, and mosquitoes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A trio of moths swim against the ceiling of his bunkroom. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Abandoned factories, with rows of small square windows partly bashed in, ravaged as if by moths. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Even some insects have been domesticated, notably Eurasia’s honeybee and China’s silkworm moth, kept for honey and silk, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The guard raised the newspaper, to which a couple of dusty moth wings were still clinging, and slapped the door frame with it, smiling broadly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In some manner a big moth got into the room and circled the hanging kerosene lamp. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z In this case, the fly inserted its eggs inside the moth cocoon. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z On the ceiling, moths fling themselves at the dull gray light tubes running the length of the corridor and I hear the papery flapping of their wings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the center they created a bed by piling together several mattresses, which they covered with pieces of moth- eaten velvet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When the moth made contact, he expected her to manifest in his mind, but she didn’t. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A night moth fluttered into Antains face, probably attracted by the moonlight shining on his skin. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He tells them, “Not very sporting, taking out a kid who weighs about as much as a moth.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Outside the dining-room windows the big moths battered softly against the glass. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Her moths broke apart and spun away, and that was when a sound caught her ear. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The worst of all was this house, with the dark rooms and the old furniture and the cases of moths, he would always have to come back to it. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I reached for the glass and bottle, and carefully, on my knees, with bent head, crawled to the farthest wall Cobwebs touched my face with the softness of moths. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Four ants together, or ten, encircling a dead moth on a path, begin to look more like an idea. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Two of the men looked so alike that she grew confused for a moment, thinking that two sets of moths were relaying her the same information. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The quiet was disturbed only by the slup of soup and gnash of chewing, and his father waved his hand to try to drive the moths away from the chimney of the kerosene lamp. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Noises, moths, shadows, all these things stiffen his arms and shoulders and even his hair, if you can find this believing. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Asta became a moth, and as she settled near another crack in the wall, Malcolm felt a shock as she saw something. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z They were fast and irregular, like a pair of trapped moths. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Her text discussed the metamorphosis of more than fifty moths and butterflies, describing the timing of each phase, her repeated experiments and failures, and any other interesting insect behavior she had observed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The gypsy moth is an especially intriguing example. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Who would ever want to kiss a girl who eats moths?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Hazel could sense that there were many all about, taking flies and moths on the wing and uttering their minute cries as they flew. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My favorite is the luna moth, huge and pale green, with crescents on the wings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Already, small moths decorated the screen; they pinged deferentially against the windows and fell away. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We can hang strips impregnated with the chemical lindane in our closets and garment bags or place them in our bureau drawers for a half year’s freedom from worry over moth damage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There were things of his grandfathers, too, lights and jars and nets, all to do with the moth collecting. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Sarai dispatched her moths to the guildhall, where most of the delegates were sleeping soundly, and to the homes of city leaders, and some of the Tizerkane, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The mosquitoes and big white moths came in the door and went out the windows. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Smith watched, his eyes following the colt as he careened across the track, running as a moth flies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Falling asleep might sever the tether,” she said, “and cut the moth loose.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The journey from rooftops to terrace was long for such small fluttering scraps as moths, and she had never been so impatient as in those minutes while they rose through the heights of the air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z If the brick was at the back, there were problems like wax moths or ailing queens. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sarai woke up gagging on the feel of a hundred damp moths cramming themselves down her throat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “You pretend very well,” said Tyrion, examining a shirt of heavy iron mail so foil of holes that it almost looked moth- eaten. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her moth was perched in a shadowed corner of the window casement, and she waited there a long time after he fell still, trying to determine when he had truly crossed over. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Passing by in the evenings, we saw Haldar sitting alone, swatting moths with the sole of his slipper. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z After trials of several species, 3 billion eggs of an Argentine moth were released in Australia in 1930. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She already felt like she had creatures inside her—moths and snakes and terrors—and wouldn’t want them on her, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The moth spooked from his brow and all the others from the wall, to flutter up to the ceiling and beat around the beams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The gypsy moth, a native of Europe, has been in the United States for nearly a hundred years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She thinks there is a connection between butterflies, moths, caterpillars, and the rumpled brown cocoon before her, and she is determined to find it. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The shelf above the coatrack was just as crammed as the space below, mostly with old clothes that were full of moth holes and eaten away by mildew. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Weeks later, busy elsewhere, she may have missed the first few velvet-white moths creeping from their cocoons. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She paced on her terrace, back and forth beneath the moon, while down in the city her moths went from house to house like bees from flower to flower. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He thought that it might disintegrate, like the moth in the Red Room. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She made the descent every night through her moths’ senses, but that was different. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She turned away from him in the dream, even though she knew he couldn’t see her real mouth, or the moths vanishing into it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z "When you come to the chamber of the Undying, be patient. Our little lives are no more than a flicker of a moth's wing to them. Listen well, and write each word upon your heart." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was strange because although her eyes showed no emotion or interest, she must have been interested in order to be watching the moth so closely. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z But the panic is stirring inside me, a big black moth of scaredness flapping around inside my chest that can’t get out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The break in the forest grew as we sprinted to it like moths to a flame. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Much as the Industrial Revolution changed the environment for moths, farming changed the environment for plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In reality a moth perched on his brow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A big brown night moth fluttered out from under the oar blades propped beside her on the seat, and wobbled off toward nowhere through the fragrant air. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z All my moth ideas had burnt away to nothingness. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z And quickly I head back, a moth attracted to that marvelous light. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She could never be still when her moths were abroad. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His gentle calling drew Minli to him like a moth to a lit lantern. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z She felt a cold hand touch her face, fingers running over it like the gentle beat of a moth’s wings. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z That could only have come from her, by way of her moth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Not just a cloud of moths,” she says, “like ... a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and legs and . . .” She shudders and shakes her head. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z And...was that a moth perched on his brow? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A bright moth hovered in front of Aru and Mini and Boo. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z As evening drew in, and moths began to swoop under the canopy, now lit with floating golden lanterns, the revelry became more and more uncontained. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She screamed her moths and curled up in the corner with her eyes tightly closed, wishing more than ever before that she could go with them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A moth fluttered around his head, its path a scribble. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Mesmerized, he put down his suitcase and felt himself pulled into the room, like a moth fluttering helplessly towards the light. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He too was drawn to the same literary icons like a moth to a flame: Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Goethe and Shakespeare. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Beside me David steps close to the lights, his fingers flickering at his sides, fast as moth wings. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And he was uncertain how impressive the moth collection might really be. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Last night, Joe recalled, the first moths had begun bapping their powdery wings against his kitchen windows; today water skeeters floated on the surface into his field, frantically skittering their legs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “You could only kill one person a night, I suppose. Maybe two. I wonder how many moths it would take to suffocate someone.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z These were the campaigns against the gypsy moth in the northeastern states and the fire ant in the South. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She stepped out onto her terrace, and screamed her moths at the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The long, smooth triangle of his back rose and fell with deep, even breathing as her moth fluttered above him, looking for a place to settle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Another of her moths was fluttering in sight of the pavilion where the silk sleighs rested. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She dissolved the phantasm like a moth at sunup, and slipped into its place. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z An article that cost thirty cents in 1912 still was thirty cents although mice and moths might seem to some to have reduced its value. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t help you,” she wanted to say, but the thickness in her throat was more than just the phantom feel of moths. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The little moths of light began to gather around a shape in the dark. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I paid too much for these clothes to have them turn into moth food.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Feverish moths of various sizes batted against us before launching themselves at the lamps again and again. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Before an audience of intellectuals, Swammerdam cut away the skin of the silkworm to reveal what appeared to be a tiny model of the future moth inside, from proboscis to antennae to folded wings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He walks toward it on this chilly evening through the French countryside like a moth to a flame. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I watched one of the cats swatting a moth that was flitting around the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z When you want to be on your very best grammatical behavior, use due to only if you mean “caused by” or “resulting from”: The damage was due to moths. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A cold moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts landed lightly on Rahel’s heart. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As the road darkened, the beams of our headlights filled with hundreds of blinded moths. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the simile does not suit us, for you are no moth, and I am not a fire.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Those with clean tubs simply had not yet transferred the scum from their persons, and Sarai was loath to perch her moths on them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A late moth blustered in to find the fire. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z On the table there, polished now and plain, an ugly case would stand containing butterflies and moths, and another one with birds’ eggs, wrapped in cotton wool. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A book about moths, for instance, might be under “M” for moths, or “I” for insects, or “B” for bugs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The moth faded away, and they found themselves in an open-air room. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The moths near the anchor were incinerated in an instant. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The brush of a death's-head moth against a cold black screen. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1869 a French scientist, Leopold Trouvelot, accidentally allowed a few of these moths to escape from his laboratory in Medford, Massachusetts, where he was attempting to cross them with silkworms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As Maria discovered, all butterflies and moths undergo complete metamorphosis, which means they move through four very different phases: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Maria did not realize until later in her life that these “false changes”—moth cocoons that produced flies or wasps instead of moths—were caused by insect parasitism. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Nothing moved but the moths around the lights. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The moth with the zigzag pattern on its wings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The gypsy moth had reappeared there in numbers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The proboscis of the death’s-head hawk moth is used as a kind of reed instrument, blown through to make high-pitched, reedy notes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She flapped her hands at thin air, as though beating off large invisible moths. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z That they could be sharing such a moment and lose it in an instant because he rolled over on his pillow and crushed a moth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She dropped to her knees on the terrace, head spinning as more moths died, more holes melting from her vision, and the rest kept on reeling, out of her control. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A cloud of white vampire moths hovered above Her grisly head. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z But today, even moths and aphids sounded appetizing. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “I really loved that moth, too. That one was my favorite.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His life’s greatest setback was not having had the moth that he had discovered named after him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If you didn't look too closely they might have been a flock of moths. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She snapped the tether of consciousness and cut the moth loose, losing the dream in an instant. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They will come on Mother’s Day, and the sixth graders will put on a play in honor of our moth- ers and the foreigners. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, a black moth flaps into the room. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Let’s go out there for a bit and watch the spiders catching moths, shall we?” said Fiver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her moth spooked from him and broke contact. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She hated for anyone to see her moths come or go. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He didn’t move over, but closed his eyes, feeling the moths all around him—Sarai all around him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Some said they grew from old things—flies grew from old meat, moths from old wool. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Some cocoons were allowed to hatch into white silk moths, which would produce eggs and continue the cycle. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I had seen moths and winged insects pouring from the mouth of the cave, and it occurred to me that some of them must be flying all the way to the back. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were lost inside the dream, no awareness of the real—of rooms or beds or moths or brows. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The waving stems scatter papery white moths, who go down again to hide in the dark grasses. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If anyone were ever to witness the moths behaving in such a coordinated way, they would have to grow suspicious that these were no natural creatures. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Not long ago, Mr Hooper had been talking about the moths. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Mama inches forward, eyes glued on Darlene, hands slowly extended like a moth to a flame. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I think of biology class and Ms. Cantor teaching us about the peppered moths in England, their new color camouflaging them from birds among the soot. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z When she pulls the door open, a moth flutters out, its white wings carrying it toward her face. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Kingshaw did not know which were worse, moths alive, with their whirring, pattering wings, or these moths, flattened and pinned and dead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I am panting, wet with sweat and trembling like a moth. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z She began to flutter like a moth and a honeyed laugh spilled from her. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Their dragonflies were skimming over the rocks, snapping up moths. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I mean, if you keep the moth where it is, on me, but fall asleep up there, could you...do you think that maybe you could stay here? With me?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The night was not dark enough to hide what lay on the lawn outside: a shapeless mound of ashes, pale gray in the moonlight, gray as moth wings, gray as burnt paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A faded mantilla, soft as a moth, is draped over the sofa. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was either your daughter or the moths.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Bats her eyelashes against my skin, feels like a moth’s wings. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t speak, just runs his fingers over the bruises on my neck with a touch as light as moth wings, plants a kiss between my eyes, and disappears. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Or that plants spontaneously transformed into caterpillars, or moths into birds, simply because the climate was so hot and wild. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The world was as quiet as if it had spun itself into a cocoon like a moth preparing itself to slip out in the morning, young again and good as new. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Why did some cocoons produce flies or wasps instead of moths? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her moths were still here, up on the ceiling beams, and the night wasn’t over. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The day to which she was eternally skewered, like a moth stuck through the thorax by a long, shining pin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She turned away, and moving as quietly as the moth Pantalaimon, she went into her bedroom and closed the door. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Well, he might never have wings in his waking life, but he would hold Sarai—not her phantom and not her moth, but her, flesh and blood and spirit. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was a lunar landscape to the moth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I had probably interrupted her in the middle of her own quiet time when the boiler and presses were off and the cool night flew against the windows in moths and crickets. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Since he was very young, he had been terrified of moths. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She emptied all three bags of flies into the big cooler, then hunted around until she found two green inchworms and a fuzzy gypsy moth caterpillar. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “I’m trying to figure out some housing for him. How long do moths live, anyway?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The girl hovers like a moth, near, far. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Theresa unwrapped a stem of lavender moth orchids. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z No one had lived here in all the time she'd been coming down to Weep, so there was no reason to send moths here. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Sometimes a caterpillar and its pupa would surprise Maria by hatching into a swarm of flies or wasps instead of the moth or butterfly she expected. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She was also convinced that many butterflies and moths were linked to specific plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts spread its wings over both their hearts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is wonderful to see the butterfly or moth emerging and watch its crumpled wings become flat and strong. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The slightest breath of wind sent the index cards fluttering like huge moths. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In Pappachi’s study, mounted butterflies and moths had disintegrated into small heaps of iridescent dust that powdered the bottom of their glass display cases, leaving the pins that had impaled them naked. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Stella watched Spoon Man wander over toward where the neighbors, like moths, were hovering over the warmth of the fire pit. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z And though she didn’t dare look at him while she told him her truth, her moth watched his sleeping face for any flicker of expression that might betray disgust. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The jewelry had disappeared years ago, but the closets still held Miss Lilian’s clothing—skirts, blouses, and dresses long out of style but of fine quality except for moth holes. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z We talk to flashy butterflies and bashful moths. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Lyra felt a blush from the roots of her hair to the soles of her feet; Pantalaimon became a brown moth to hide. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Sarai screamed her moths at Weep, and down and down they whirled. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He tried for the moth again and missed. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Birds flitted quietly into the trees; tiny white moths sprayed off from under their feet; the trail led sharply upward in shadow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The moth left her brow, and Sarai left the dream and flew back out into the night. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I heard the moths landing against the porch lightbulb. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z True, many already knew that silk moths came from “worms.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her other ninety-nine moths had flown off and were spinning through the city in clusters, searching for some hint of activity. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Out of the shadows dash creatures of all shapes and sizes: swift, diving bats and scurrying raccoons, fluttery moths and cunning bobcats. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Later on I lay in bed and saw the happy little moth, still alive, flitting from the night-light up the wall and back to the night-light. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It resembles a somewhat slimy, buck-toothed ogre and generally resides in attics or barns belonging to wizards, where it eats spiders and moths. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Flowing more of her attention into these dozen-some moths, she sent them down to investigate. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Six species of cotton insects, along with an assortment of thrips, fruit moths, leaf hoppers, caterpillars, mites, aphids, wireworms, and many others now are able to ignore the farmer’s assault with chemical sprays. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We set like that, Minny staring at the brown moth pressed up on the wall, me staring at that flap a red meat, left dry in the pan. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Is she really going to devote fifty hours of her life to a crotchety dowager in a drafty attic, going through boxes filled with moths and dust mites and who knows what else? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Hooper stood very still, turning the pencil round and round inside the sharpener, and watching the shaving of wood uncurl itself out of the side, like a moth emerging from the larva. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z His face is beaming so bright it could bring moths. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “The rug is moldy, mildewed, and full of moths, Will,” she snapped. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She was watching Pantalaimon as he skimmed and darted through the air, snapping up tiny moths like the other dragonflies. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Pacheco swung clumsily at another pretty moth sucking on a sweet pea nearby and stunned both himself and the lawyer by catching it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She had misplaced her awareness of her true body reposed in her true bed, and of the moth on Lazlo’s brow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Gypsy moths arrived in 1983 and have since ravaged considerable acreages of oaks and hickories. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Translated into moths, Sarai surged out the windows and siphoned herself away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His moth was named after the Acting Director of the Department of Entomology, a junior officer whom Pappachi had always disliked. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the moth’s senses she smelled his sandalwood and clean musk scent. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She actually believed it was her moths, that she had to choke them down, cloying and clogging and alive. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She carefully tended it, and weeks later, a huge, delicately patterned gray-and-white moth emerged from the pupa, the biggest she had ever seen. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When the fly eggs hatched, its larvae fed on the moth pupa, pupated into flies, and flew away. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He had been a lepidopterist; he had filled it with glass showcases of moths and butterflies. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z His gloved hands fluttered like large white moths. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “And in the morning,” Minya went on, “when he’s found dead in his bed, the moths will have turned to smoke, and no one will even know what killed him.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They stayed on the road until night, when they drew close to the house like moths drawn towards the light. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When he’d been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself, but the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Little by little the gypsy moth has spread throughout New England. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The bizarre, tenuous nature of their connection struck him with new force—that a moth should be their only link. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z As the Shy Maid drew closer, Tyrion could see the shapes of stone men moving in the light, shuffling aimlessly around the lamps like slow grey moths. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She reached out with her mind, fumbling for the cut tether, as though she might revive the moth and draw it back home, but it was lost to her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The gypsy moth programs were marked by many acts of irresponsibility. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A little cloud of moths came to flutter around the flame of his candle, but otherwise nothing moved in Plummer Square. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Dogs barked; a couple of bats hunted moths around Harlan Betchel’s mercury vapor security lamp; the evening pulsed gently like a calm heart. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A dark, brittle ash flew in the air like dying moths. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Harry eyed me and then said, “Let me look at him. He’s a prizewinner, isn’t he? If they had an entry for moths at the Fentress Fair, you’d take it, easy.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Between the dreamer’s bare shoulder blades, the perched moth trembled. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Another insect to learn the profitable way of resistance was the codling moth, or appleworm, in the 1920’s, although lead arsenate had been used successfully against it for some 40 years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We all know from Chucha that a black moth is an omen of death. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The moth lay on his pillow like a scrap of sooty velvet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Thus, woodpeckers are the primary control of the Engelmann spruce beetle, reducing its populations from 45 to 98 per cent and are important in the control of the codling moth in apple orchards. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Jinny only rolled her eyes and reached to open the storehouse door with her left hand, while she waved her right hand in the air overhead, scattering moths and a spiderweb from the doorframe. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There was a break in the buildings, and sails spread like moth’s wings greeted them as they turned onto the avenue along the Avery. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She had her grandfather’s moth on her heart. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She imagined her moths drowning in silence, and it felt like the end of the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In one is a World War Two airplane, in the style of a cigarette card; in the other is a large pale-green luna moth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t sunrise or a crushed moth that had broken this dream, but Thyon Nero pitching pebbles. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Why not something more interesting like, say, a giant moth? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I even fall asleep in the tower during a demonstration of moth summoning. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was a relief, she admitted to herself, finally giving up and drawing the moth off the wall and out the window, back up into the air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There was no obstacle to entering, but she hesitated and perched the moths on the window ledge to peer inside. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “He is not your opponent,” Hector says with a dismissive gesture, the lace cuff of his shirt fluttering like a moth. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Manchee wanders in and out the back doors as I sweep, sometimes chasing the pink moths I stir from faint corners. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Maria now felt certain—based on her own observations—that all European butterflies and moths followed the same cycle of transformation: egg to caterpillar to pupa and back to egg again. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But the beating inside her is more desperate than hunger, a moth wild inside a lampshade. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They were awake, for the bird’s eyes were bright and the moth’s feelers waved languidly, but they weren’t animated, as she would have expected them to be. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It made a bold scientific declaration: even in the mysterious jungles of the New World, toads did not spring from mud, leaves did not change into moths, or butterflies into birds. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She was always restless when her moths were out, and now her confusion was compounding it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His bed was empty and his boots gone, so the moths, fluttering with agitation, had no choice but to settle down and wait. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z One film, not on view, is about the perils of light, as described from the perspective of a moth. Art Review: You Must Remember This 2011-08-18T21:47:02Z Maybe it’s time to venture beyond the world of moths. The moth orchid, while lovely, has overshadowed other, less common varieties 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z But pantry moths had smuggled aboard, burrowing into some of Ms. Hall’s sculptures, which are made of bread. A Jackson Pollock Takes Its First Trip to Venice 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The cafe’s early success also ignited a commercial revival in a nearly deserted neighborhood that is known today as Dumbo — a seductive flame to waves of entrepreneurial moths. View From the River Café: 40 Years of Feasts and Firsts 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z When her children were young, she stayed close to home, investigated parasitoid wasps and tiger moths in the neighborhood and nearby gardens, taught painting and wrote two books about European insects. Google honors a feminist original 2013-04-02T16:11:00Z There's a good deal of straightforward information: what flatworms and moths and aphids look like, their habits and histories, and many pages of photographs and illustrations. Bugs Britannica by Peter Marren, edited by Richard Mabey 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z In another film, moths dance around Eiko’s head as she presses white blossoms against her chest and then, more ferociously, slaps herself with them. Review: Eiko, Dancing With Friends and With the Dead 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z The Virginia creeper sphinx moth looks like a delta-winged aircraft, camouflaged for action. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Then the orchid captured the public imagination, first with the fine and dandy corsage and today with the cheap and cheerful phalaenopsis or moth orchid. There are 30,000 species of orchids. You can see some of the unusual, beautiful and weird varieties in D.C. 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z I was drawn to those bad boys like a moth to a flame, and some of them were interested in me, but I needed to play it safe and keep them far away. 27 and never been kissed 2012-08-17T23:30:00Z They pupate, forming cocoons, and eventually emerge in their adult form as Isabella tiger moths. Woolly bear caterpillars use clever tricks to survive 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z I didn’t have the heart to tell her that her breakthrough moment involved an owl butterfly, not a moth. For an offbeat museum experience, have a slumber party with penguins in San Francisco 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Literally, in the case of “Bridge on Fire”: “Baby, like a moth enamored with the light/watched it beam by beam ignite!/Praying with an exhilarating fright that a gale would double up its size.” Angelica Garcia: An Unexpected Conspiracy of One 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z A series of striking new sculptures resemble Rorschach ink blots whose organic shapes suggest moths and pelvic bones, heraldic lions and many-armed deities. Art We Saw This Summer 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z What kind of meal will Xavier prepare, or will he succumb to the temptation of the moth? A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The war, like a flame eating moths, annihilated those presumptions. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Merian shows the moth's larvae on erythrina fusca, the coral bean, which has colonised coastal areas from South Africa to Japan to Central America by floating its beans across the oceans. Peter Carey? Doesn't know his leeches. Tom McCarthy? Bad on moths 2010-10-17T20:44:00Z Mr. Titus Pillowby Owl, their landlord, makes it clear that failing to pay their rent, 10 moths a night, will cost them their apartment or, if his appetites change, their lives. New Middle Grade Fiction From the Authors of ‘Wicked’ and ‘Knights vs. Dinosaurs’ 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Using moths as bait, they showed that bats were 73.5 percent less successful at capturing their meal when the call was sounded than when it wasn’t. In the hunt for food, bats seem to bug one another “A Woman Under the Influence” views its subject not as a breathing, living human than a moth pinned to a board—on display to be viewed. Not anyone’s “crazy bitch”: Smashing the “Fatal Attraction” clichés of the “female breakdown” 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z He added that Knight’s script shows Pip’s ambition, his desire to rise in social class, driving him “like a moth to a flame.” Steven Knight’s ‘Great Expectations’ is a Dark Dream World 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z “The whole thing is a psycho moth trap now,” she said. Moths Have Been Partying in Your Dark Closet. What Now? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The book, which begins months before her moment onstage, opens with a moth — one that Coel kills with a toxic spray and little regard — and the realization that she’s lost the ability to smell. Review | Michaela Coel takes the television industry to task in ‘Misfits’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Either way, this adaptation is good news for caterpillars, which survive and grow up to be moths. Woolly bear caterpillars use clever tricks to survive 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z “Well, hello there,” the moth says, introducing himself to Walker. Review: Without Singing, the Moth Hits the High Notes in ‘The Echo Drift’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z “Putting them throughout a closet won’t kill moths, and will cause headaches for the homeowner, literally.” 2010-01-28T05:13:00Z Daughter drags every bit of fabric into the bedroom – a mountain of clothing, bedding, linen, towels, moths, dust and rags, sparking despair and panic. The life-changing horror of extreme tidying: was it a good idea to Marie Kondo my house? 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Or ballerina aerialists form a kind of human maypole, as their silky white capes stream down like moth wings. ‘Odysseo’: Lovely horses, riders prancing in a dreamscape 2014-02-20T22:48:30Z Grizzlies, which are a type of brown bear, also like to spend their days turning over rocks in search of army cutworm moths. Think you know what bunnies and bears eat? Their diets may surprise you. 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z A dazzling array of more than 1,000 species of nocturnal moths in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana and Panama, captured close-up and in full color. Inspiring, transporting and just plain gorgeous coffee table books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Like a moth to a nontoxic flame, the store drew Instagram flâneurs in droves — but also plenty of grimaces and eye rolls from locals. How Erewhon Became L.A.’s Hottest Hangout 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Like a lunar moth, he alighted, accompanied by whomever happened to be in his entourage of the moment, first at an art opening, then at a dinner, later perhaps at a nightclub. At the Andy Warhol Museum, Celebrating the 20th-Anniversary With A Show About Halston and Warhol 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z “It’s always the piece that gets put away in the dark — if not disturbed the moth is happy,” said Jill Gordon, an entomologist and consultant nicknamed “the moth doctor” and “Dr. Jill” by clients. Moths Have Been Partying in Your Dark Closet. What Now? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z She is the flame; the world is the moth. And the Top TV Words of the Year Are… 2012-09-25T12:00:34Z “It never stops. People are like moths, drawn to those lights.” Chris Burden's architectural intelligence 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z They might be faded or torn, eaten by moths and the passage of time. Keepsakes worth keeping: Five families on the artifacts they rescued 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z One time I got a wonderful collection on butterflies and moths. Longtime bookseller David Ishii was quite a story himself 2012-03-02T06:27:40Z A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times that the film is “as gentle as a moth’s wing, as soft and sweet as the flesh of a marshmallow.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Yellowstone’ and ‘The Story of the Royals’ 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Hooked rugs with moth damage are always wool, because wool is what the moths are attracted to. If you want to refinish only a few floorboards, be prepared for imperfection 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Woolly bears, as the larvae of the Isabella tiger moth are affectionately known, will play starring roles in Incredible Insects, a theme weekend at Wave Hill, the 28-acre public garden in the Bronx. Spare Times Listings for Kids for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z “It’s the same method for holes in socks as it is for moth holes in jumpers.” Forget fast fashion! Six ways to bring clothes back to life – from darning to stain removal 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Darwin also enlisted some of his 10 children to gather flowers or collect moths at night. From 25,540 Paper Fragments, How Darwin Himself Evolved 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Addiction becomes a dusty, thrumming moth that we can hold in the palm of our hand. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The paintings also reveal what some moths share with certain grasshoppers and beetles, that the plain forewings conceal hindwings of extraordinary ornament. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z "And that fact also works if you remove the word 'moth'." Comedy gold: Jimmy Carr's Stand Up 2012-07-12T14:12:27Z With this background, and drawn like a moth to themes of flaming depravity, Schreker fit the Nazis’ profile of the degenerate artist to a T. In late 1933, after spirit-crushing humiliations, he suffered a stroke. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z This novel builds, subtly, to a moment that allows Andrei a career victory that may enable Putin’s regime to impale those Andrei loves most like moths on pins. Struggling to Love, Work and Do the Right Thing in Putin’s Russia 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z To the extent that gardeners notice moths, it’s the moth species that are pests, which is usually in their caterpillar stage. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Consider Choristostigma, which is the shape of an arrowhead and patterned in yellow and violet, or the chocolate moth, a rich brown with slender beige stripes and a lacy fringe. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Hole-ridden tweed suits that looked like they'd been devoured by generations of moths opened the show with what seemed like a sly commentary on the French heritage label's amazing staying power. McQueen successor Burton carries on his legacy 2010-10-05T22:09:00Z The dead moth and that missing sense become symbols woven through a narrative that charts Coel’s progression from a misfit growing up in London to a misfit writing and producing her own successful show. Review | Michaela Coel takes the television industry to task in ‘Misfits’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z “Not to be merely alive like a worm, or a moth, or a cactus, but to really live” — as well as the community they build on Town’s outskirts. A Dystopian Fable About the Unshakable Borders of Class 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Airtight vacuum storage bags will help protect seasonal clothing from dust, moths and odors. No closet? With a little creativity, you can make up for the lack of storage space. 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps the first bookworm in the English language appears in the Exeter Book riddles: A moth eats words, gnawing through the pages as foodstuff but losing the sense. What Has One Eye and 1,200 Heads? An Old English Riddle, That’s What! 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z And colors that changed from the drab beige of a clothes moth to the fantastic peach, orange and teal blues of rare species? Special Report: Fashion: When Youth Is the Holy Grail 2011-02-21T18:27:40Z There are some 160,000 species of moths, though only a handful of those, in the Tineidae family, eat clothing. Moths Have Been Partying in Your Dark Closet. What Now? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z More than a hundred butterfly and moth species flit and dance among the conifers in summer. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Fox Boston couldn’t resist suggesting the work portrayed some sort of controversial figure, and like moths to a flame the xenophobes and anti-Muslim bigots came running. Boston mural: A “rorschach test for idiots and racists” 2012-08-11T11:59:00Z The spiny oakworm moth is a confection in butterscotch and toffee. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z We took the car to the first of many mechanics, cleaned out the nest, and tried every home remedy — moth balls, peppermint spray, special spicy rat tape — that YouTube could offer. Rats in our house, rats in our streets: For New York rodents, so much depends on real estate 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Eliot, Proust, Joyce, and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis’ Like moths to the light, the great writers of the early 20th century seemed drawn to Sydney and Violet Schiff’s orbit. ‘Sidney and Violet’: inside a charmed literary circle 2013-08-28T22:24:55Z It contains spike proteins, produced by moth cells infected with a genetically modified virus, together with a substance called an adjuvant which boosts the immune response. Novavax Covid vaccine shown to be nearly 90% effective in UK trial 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The natural deterioration of machinery and material in a playhouse in which upkeep had basically ceased leads to damaged wiring and moth holes in costumes, among other problems. How Broadway’s set-making guru is tackling the comeback — from mold in stage fog to costumes that don’t fit anymore 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z “People decided to redo their homes and found areas where the moths were underneath the ottoman or couch,” she said. Moths Have Been Partying in Your Dark Closet. What Now? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The endlessness is only in the filigree, like the spots on a moth or Queequeg’s tattoos. Why We Should Never Expect to Discover Sentient Ice Cubes 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z "The male gypsy moth can smell the female gypsy moth up to seven miles away – and that fact also works if you remove the word moth." Jimmy Carr: Laughing on the other side of his face 2012-06-23T23:06:26Z The moth that got caught in one of its electromechanical relays associated computers with the term “bug” forevermore. Walter Isaacson’s ‘The Innovators’ Studies Computer Wizards 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The man who is a moth to the spotlight allowed his wife to have it to herself. Perspective | Melania Trump’s convention speech was a moment of calm amid the Trump family rant 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Xavier knows; he still hungers for moth even though he gave it up years ago with the help of Anise, the women he loved more than the woman he married. Review | ‘Popisho’ imagines a magical realm teeming with memorable characters 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z The team end up nearly dying, cocooned in the moths' web inside a Jeep as their escape attempt fails. Mulder and Scully at San Diego Comic-Con: the 13 best X-Files episodes ever 2013-07-18T12:00:00Z It was taken down in 2003 when over a century of exposure to light, moths, mice, bat droppings, candle grease, dust and damp was in danger of causing it irreparable damage. William Morris and his 'Cumbrian ladies' will be strumming their harps as their masterpiece is restored 2012-06-14T21:20:00Z The British designer paid homage to a Marlene Dietrich quote about men - like moths - being attracted to light. Feminine twist on classic menswear at Fashion Week 2011-02-14T20:56:25Z I was sitting on the kitchen floor of a cottage in France swearing my head off and a hummingbird moth, tiny and delicate, flew round me twice. Tony Scott remembered by Keira Knightley 2012-12-22T22:15:01Z There are more than 30,000 naturally occurring types of orchid, but the white moth orchid phalaenopsis, like smoked sea salt, has gone from hard-to-find gourmet treat to suburban grocery staple. Noticed: An Orchid by Any Other Name Is a Marquee 2012-07-13T23:15:49Z New opportunities this year include collecting moth specimens, listening to whale “singing” with a marine biologist, searching for the island’s endangered racer snake and going on a geology tour by boat, taxi or hike. Tours and Parks News: Wildlife Events in Saba, Diving in Bonaire 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z At the entrance to the conservatory’s Music Room, 350 moth orchids are planted in moss-draped gutters, 22 rows of them, to form a curtain. The moth orchid, while lovely, has overshadowed other, less common varieties 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z He figured that most scientists taking on Darpa's challenge would work with flies or moths, longtime laboratory superstars, but Maharbiz came to believe that beetles were a better bet. The race to create 'insect cyborgs' 2013-02-17T00:05:32Z So, scientists believe that moths aren’t really so much attracted to the light of a flame; instead, they are actually disoriented by it. Why do I visit my family for the holidays? 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z So I open my guest-room closet door, reach in, and as I pull out Gary’s green-and-tan baseball jacket, musty and slightly moth eaten, I still feel that tinge in my gut. Peter Horton: The First Time I Died on TV 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z In the Fern Passage, I find cascades of moth orchids unlike anything you will see at the grocery store — the flower spikes are four feet or more and with 30 huge blooms on them. The moth orchid, while lovely, has overshadowed other, less common varieties 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z “Thanks to the semi-transparency of the shell,” Mr. Radic said, “the light will attract the attention of passers-by, like lamps attracting moths.” Space Pod Alights at the Serpentine Gallery 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Just as the music was an Afro-funk echo of Schoenberg, the text referred to Giraud, with “moonlight’s pale blossoms” and giant moths. Dance Review: Monstah Black?s ?Black Moon,? at Dance New Amsterdam - Review 2011-09-19T22:35:22Z It's now 1941, the dawn of the siege of Leningrad, and Pekkala must uncover the secret of an apparently unexceptional painting of a red moth belonging to the passenger of a crashed German scout plane. Thrillers – review roundup 2013-02-22T09:01:00Z I loved the minnows drawn to the street lamps like moths. Rewind TV: Doctor Who; The Nativity; Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express; Come Fly With Me 2010-12-26T00:05:17Z Bathe the town in a nice light these days, and, as the analogy goes, the academy transforms into a helpless moth. Analysis | The recipe for an Oscars’ best picture nod includes an infusion of Hollywood love 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Among his most famous is one he told on “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien” in 2009, about a moth that goes to a podiatrist. Norm Macdonald, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Comedian, Dies at 61 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Heartleaf philodendron, string of hearts, and moth orchids are recommended by Gardenista as top V-day inspired choices with a dash of whimsy. 5 Valentine's Day gift ideas that aren't cliché 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Neon nymphets On the transcontinental car journey that he re-imagines in Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, a serious lepidopterist, records that he 'caught some very good moths at the neon lights of a gas station' in Texas. Illuminating the elements - in pictures 2011-02-10T13:43:06Z Whenever the moth speaks, we see him swell in size like a sound wave anthropomorphized; under his voice we hear a scritchy noise that, comic-cruelly, brings to mind a bug zapper. Review: Without Singing, the Moth Hits the High Notes in ‘The Echo Drift’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z They both look tenderly human and resemble the soft luminescence of moths at night. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Four Quartets’ Hits Poetic Heights 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z “Well,” Letterman concluded for the moth, “the light was on.” Upfronts Watch: CBS Changes, Albeit By Staying the Same 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z If you do spot moths in your home, don’t panic. 2010-01-28T05:13:00Z There’s a good deal of dodging, one senses, in the area of his sexual experience, his desire to be both moth and flame. How Life as a Foreigner Helped Shape a Man of Letters 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z One highlight will be broadcast live on Facebook at 8:30: a forest prowl to find owls, which are far more elusive than moths. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z A major highlight here though is conVENience, set in a ladies' loo, with babies blown out of noses and moths with cameras for eyes. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z It’s a ghost moth larvae that has been mummified by the fungus, and is an aphrodisiac as well as the most expensive mushroom in the world. In Bhutan, Prayer Flags and Birds From Heaven 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z “Did you see moths in your life?” he asks a group before taking off in a serpentine swoop as if it were suddenly a moonlit night. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Babe announces, “Before sundown, I intend to gratify everything in me as the luna moth dies at dusk.” Theater Review: ?In Masks Outrageous and Austere? at the Culture Project 2012-04-17T02:00:12Z The virus causes gypsy moth caterpillars to climb to the tops of trees, where they die and their disintegrating bodies rain infectious particles on their unsuspecting brethren below. Americans mark 10th anniversary of attacks 2011-09-11T13:00:00Z If you live on a deeply wooded 26-acre tract in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, as Deborah Davis does, you are in moth paradise. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The Eastern tent caterpillar, the tomato hornworm, the gypsy moth caterpillar, the fall cankerworm — these pests belong to the darker side of the order Lepidoptera. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Each looks wholly different than the next: red moths, dusty gray moths, purple moths, moths that look exactly like pieces of bark. T Magazine: Send in the Clouds 2011-11-18T13:08:53Z Waves of moth attack left precious garments unexpectedly friable. How to give up clothes shopping: 'I became skilled at hiding holes' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z As for the worm, it’s the larva of the maguey moth, an animal that lives and feeds on agave plants. 3 questions about tequila, answered 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z That a photographer can pin that specimen to the board as some kind of exotic moth and show her there in her true colors.” Empathy and Artistry: Rediscovering Dorothea Lange 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The snow that shoulders the peaks glows like a white-winged moth in the darkness. Facing death on the mountain: What my father taught me on his last great climb 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z The array of cameras monitored insect activity among the strawberries, recording honeybees, hover flies, moths, butterflies and some wasps. AI can track bees on camera. Here’s how that will help farmers 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z We learn from the wall label that mother and daughter shared a fondness for wordplay — hence moth/mother. Review | How one abstract artist refuses to be boxed in 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The way you use pheromone lures matters, because by design they are baited to attract moths from some distance. What to do when moths are still producing even after you got rid of food source 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Thursday in Las Vegas, Donald Trump took to the podium to endorse Mitt Romney, who just over a moth ago made headlines by spurning a debate that Trump planned to moderate in Iowa. Election Watch: Romney Wins, Loses Trump Primary 2012-02-03T15:08:06Z But beneath the hardened armor Gladys is saddened and bewildered at the way time has worn moth holes in the fabric of their love. | 'Haunted': A Longtime Marriage, Threatened Inside and Out 2010-12-09T04:30:00Z For around 20 years now, the 45-year-old writer has darted in and out of popular consciousness like a restless moth. David Baddiel 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z I think all my characters in a way are moths attracted to the flame that is New York City. Jay McInerney on brightness, couples and catastrophe 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z A moth to the flame, Jay McInerney is attracted to brightness. Jay McInerney on brightness, couples and catastrophe 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z She accurately described him in her autobiography as “small, dark and electric with his own sort of vitality. Crackling. Sparks seem to fly out of him. He flashes his fingers like tiny rapid moths.” Richard Avedon, a Photographer Who Wanted to Outrun the Glitz Factor 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Butterflies are a relatively harmless vice, but giant moths are like heroin: “The moth eater is always moved to begin again,” an obeah woman tells Xavier. Review | ‘Popisho’ imagines a magical realm teeming with memorable characters 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z “I was the moth, lured by your flame,” Tines sings. The Breakout Stars of 2022 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z They weren’t cheap, even at 70 percent off, and were soon consumed by moths. La Garçonne Opens in TriBeCa 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z But as these are guys drawn to their sustenance, like moths to cashmere, you were presumably not at your most confident when you encountered him. My ex was charming but critical. Now I’ve lost all my confidence | Dear Mariella 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Outside, there might be industrial decline and migration, but here the lights are fantastic and the people are drawn to it like moths. | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence 2013-05-27T13:00:48Z And then the killer: “There’s the screens with the dead moths behind them.” Annie Hall at 40: ranking the film's funniest moments 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Flowers are joyful to us, but for a moth or a bee or a hummingbird, they are essential. Perspective | An added virtue of habitat gardens: They’re pleasing to humans, too 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z “There are 15,000 moth species in the U.S.,” said Bruce Walsh, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona at Tucson. 2010-01-28T05:13:00Z And that was the story from a designer who was so inspired by rare moths that he even wrote their Latin species names in sparkles on sweaters. Special Report: Fashion: When Youth Is the Holy Grail 2011-02-21T18:27:40Z More than 18 hours of walks, bug hunts, moth trapping and more; just one of many National Insect Week events taking place across the UK. This week's new events 2012-06-29T23:05:32Z The cecropia moth is even larger — some are six inches across — and patterned like a medieval tapestry. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z At the episode’s end, Will hoists the dead man up into the air, covered in snails and fastened into the shape of a moth. Hannibal recap: season three, episode three – Secundo 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z It’s hard not to like beautiful moth orchids, even if they are cloned by the millions and are so ubiquitous that they don’t just decorate our lives, they infuse them. The moth orchid, while lovely, has overshadowed other, less common varieties 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z There, steps beyond a moss curtain, hang a multitude of multicolored moth and cane orchids in the shape of a majestic chandelier. A Grand Stage for a Diva Plant 2011-03-02T22:39:36Z Dusk falls at the Climbers’ Ranch, and men with three-day beards gather around their fry pans and propane stoves like moths around porch lights, telling tales of glaciers and grizzlies in the softly sinking light. Facing death on the mountain: What my father taught me on his last great climb 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z About 10 years ago, I left a bag of unsterilized sunflower birdseed in my basement, and thus began a continuing battle to rid my house of Indian meal moths. What to do when moths are still producing even after you got rid of food source 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z You don’t find grade-schoolers knocking on the Halloween door costumed as a moth. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Is Robert, in the words of one character, "a moth to the flame of groupthink"? 'The Widower's Tale': novelist Julia Glass' sprawling saga of a very extended family 2010-09-16T22:20:00Z But that title these days goes to phalaenopsis, the moth orchid, fluttering in every supermarket florists’ and big-box aisle. A cubicle is an awful place for a plant. Here’s how to keep one alive. 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Just take a light outdoors, and the moths will find you. Spare Times for Children for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Her videos are likewise full of morphing and empathic imagery, like a luna moth hatching from a ponytail. Why Is a Day Job Seen as the Mark of an Artist’s Failure? 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z In this scene, Nick seems drawn to her pain like a moth to light — this is a vulnerable Frances, not the opaque, sharp-tongued woman whose silence so often disturbs and intimidates him. "Conversations with Friends" challenges us to rethink the desirability of the woman in pain 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z In a real way they are fascinated, obsessed, and somewhat unnaturally drawn on one another, moths to each other's fire. Smart Watch: "Killing Eve," still slaying in season 2 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z In a wooden gazebo there was an orange moth with giant foldable wings. The Rose Queen of Texas 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The surface of a moth's wing suddenly looks like the surface of a planet; the surface of a planet looks like a moth's wing. Abstract and affecting, the new Mars pictures are a confrontation with the sublime | Sam Leith 2010-03-21T22:30:00Z "Men cluster to me, like moths to a flame, and if their wings burn, I know I'm not to blame," Packham quoted in her notes. Feminine twist on classic menswear at Fashion Week 2011-02-14T20:56:25Z Other safaris, both on foot and in vehicles, focus on the dawn chorus, bats and moths, purple emperor butterflies, Sussex oaks, owls, kingfishers and other highlights of the natural world. Returned to the wild: A 3,500-acre estate outside London is ruled by nature 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z He figured that most scientists taking on DARPA’s challenge would work with flies or moths, longtime laboratory superstars, but Maharbiz came to believe that beetles were a better bet. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z Early works often incorporated moths or butterflies, sometimes pinned in midflight before an exposed photographic plate in which they are half-captured, images of transience and metamorphosis. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A French Artist's Solitary Path 2011-10-13T11:00:14Z The prisoners had lice in their hair and moths in their blankets. Syria’s Women Prisoners, Drawn by an Artist Who Was One 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z “The organization focuses on North America, so the panda doesn’t really fit,” said Mr. Sachs, who wore a gray sweater that appeared to be ravaged by moths — not endangered in New York. Scene City: Cupcakes for the Endangered Species Coalition 2010-12-22T20:57:36Z Spoiled, clearly at least a decade older than she claims to be, and in possession of a run that makes her look as if she's trying to fend off a relentless moth attack. Taken recap: 'Would the world be a better place if Liam Neeson hadn't gone to all that trouble to save his daughter?' 2013-07-19T12:34:00Z The Scottish pools are "so still that there was a second sky in them"; when moths catch in the cobwebs in Corrag's hair, she says "my hair was wings and whiteness". Corrag by Susan Fletcher | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Was it a bird, a bat or a large moth that fluttered onstage and dipped and swooped among the dancers? Misty Copeland packs Wolf Trap with the power of love 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z A seeming winner’s flame draws incumbents like night moths. What “unity” with Trump means: For Republicans, winning is everything, principles are swept away and hypocrisy reigns 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z After a setup that rambled on for minutes, in which the moth pours out various emotional troubles, the podiatrist asks the insect why it came to a podiatrist rather than a psychiatrist. Norm Macdonald, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Comedian, Dies at 61 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z “I was the moth, lured by your flame,” Tines, who is Black, sings with disdain. Review: Musicians of Color Reclaim Control in a White Space 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z As in, the luna moth, which lives for only about a week. If you're a top designer, you gotta have a theme 2012-09-14T19:50:11Z An infestation of gypsy moths was visible on the trunk; gauzy deposits of tiny eggs were imperiling the tree’s health. Seeing Double With Jasper Johns 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Expect references to Catullus, Eros, Venus, Utamaro and Zeus, alongside spotted hyenas, the ornate bell moth, sloths, slime molds, cheetahs and a great many more. Review | Yusef Komunyakaa again brings his distinctive music to the page 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z It's less about understanding the butterfly effect than observing some urban moths flitting around a guttering candle. 360 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:33Z The opera begins with a beautiful musical evocation of moths under a parking-lot light, drawn in little figures from the flute. Review | Dogs, snakes and piccolos: New operas take WNO stage 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Good choices include ferns, succulents, mosses, miniature moth orchids, African violets, and kalanchoes. How to Create Terrarium Gardens 2012-12-31T18:50:06.577Z As Doug Tallamy, founder of the Homegrown National Park, writes in his book, Nature's Best Hope, plantains provide food for the hitched arches moth, buckeye butterflies, and the giant leopard moth. How to kill weeds naturally — for real 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Endangered turtledoves have appeared, as have rare bats and owls, beetles and moths. Returned to the wild: A 3,500-acre estate outside London is ruled by nature 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z But poet Joyce Sidman, who won a previous Newbery Honor, doesn't just wax lyrically about the night; she also includes a short factual sidebar for each subject she tackles, from owls to moths to mushrooms. Kids' books: Newbery Honors are no mere also-rans 2011-02-05T03:04:49Z By night she is the Pied Piper of moths, drawing them with her song or, more precisely, a cotton sheet strung with UV lights. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z You need a real life stage to properly survey and appreciate Clara Son’s polished debut, which featured trained dancers and heavily ruched clothes based on her investigations into the life cycle of the moth. Men’s Wear Hustles to Stay in the Game 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s the only way to guarantee that carpet moth larvae and eggs on one customer’s rug don’t spread to rugs brought in by other customers. How to stop the airflow around a drafty door 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z But most moths are benign, and some moths are unexpectedly beautiful. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z It all passes like the fluttering of moth’s wings, and there is no forgetting it. Review | In ‘Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise,’ working-class Archie Leach becomes a Hollywood legend 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z He’s a moth, ostensibly drawn to flame, yet rigid because there’s a pin through his thorax. A Minister’s Troubled Son Takes Center Stage in Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Jack’ 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z It draws analysts like moths to a flame for a simple reason: it is, clearly, harmonically coherent from beginning to end, but tantalisingly difficult to explain. The Rite of Spring – a rude awakening 2013-04-12T15:01:01Z Mr. Butler is apparently — or at least contractually — irresistible to women, and George, even in semi-eclipse, attracts them like moths to a manly flame. Movie Review: ‘Playing for Keeps,’ by Gabriele Muccino 2012-12-06T23:03:59Z From the tree branches, Gamble has hung baskets of moth orchids, which are brought outdoors from May until October and provide exotic blooms from January to June. Converting a suburban yard into a wildlife oasis, one plant at a time 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z As anyone who has ever watched moths circle the porch light endlessly can attest, artificial bulbs can be fatal to insects. A Manifesto for Loving the Darkness, and Not Metaphorically 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Such examples include the Anna tiger moth, whose handsome markings, more of the giraffe than the tiger, are upstaged by creamy yellow patches below. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Like moths to a flame, everyone eventually gathers there. 'Vanishing on 7th Street': Folks go poof in end-of-days tale 2011-03-10T22:36:09Z Xavier’s addiction isn’t to anything so mundane as alcohol or heroin, but instead to moth eating. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z These are all fairly large, which made her suspect that they were not caused by moths, which tend to leave smaller holes, just many more of them. How to mend holes in, and then clean, a crocheted afghan blanket 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z At both companies, the first step would be to treat for moths and moth eggs and to wash and dry the rugs. If you want to refinish only a few floorboards, be prepared for imperfection 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The centerpiece is a nature hike in which participants will look for moths with a museum guide. Spare Times for Children Listings for July 22-28 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Macdonald’s essays are often odes to the wonders of animal behavior — the ability of moths to migrate vast distances, possibly by sensing the earth’s electromagnetic fields, the synchronicity in flight of Eurasian cranes. Helen Macdonald Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of the Natural World 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z We owe her for the terms “bug” and “debug,” apparently coined when she had to pick moths out of an early computer. 7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of 2014-01-20T20:00:00Z But Xavier is among a handful of islanders who are cursed by a craving for moths, a desire far more addictive, dangerous and shameful than butterflies. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Like moths to a flame, we seem endlessly drawn to the bright, beautiful fantasy of college, even when the price is steep enough to crush us. Dark Academia and debt: University thrillers are the literary subgenre of the student loan crisis 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z The focus of this year’s Moth Week — the Sphingidae family, which includes what are commonly called hawk and sphinx moths — serve as important pollinators and food for larger animals. Spare Times for Children for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Poetic moths, significant in a thin soup of lesser insects, blundered about the candle flames. Family tensions simmer in Tessa Hadley’s exquisite novel ‘The Past’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z More to the point, some of the mass-market, commodity moth orchids are devastatingly beautiful. There are 30,000 species of orchids. You can see some of the unusual, beautiful and weird varieties in D.C. 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z If I want to see what sort of creature the tomato hornworm becomes, I turn to Page 147 and find a large and handsome moth, the five-spotted hawk moth. Shifting toward a greater understanding of bugs – the good and the bad 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Schoolyards are not planted with moth pollinator gardens. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The mosquitoes may avoid her, but these boys … they’re like moths. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: Seeing Double 2013-05-27T13:08:42Z In the book’s final chapter, he traces the journey of a silkworm moth. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z Children can also play indoor hopscotch — on a moth-shaped diagram — and color moth drawings. Spare Times for Children for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z About a week later, the insects shed their shells, emerging as fully grown moths. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z “He must have the sort of instinct for sex that Weegee had for crime and death. It draws him, as a moth is drawn to a naked candle flame.” Charles Gatewood, Photographer of Extremes, Dies at 73 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Also popular among crime shows are “movie maggots,” which are actually moth larvae. Hollywood’s animal trainers are an endangered species 2014-02-13T19:21:38Z The breakthrough comes when he begins to focus on and celebrate aspects of existence that are usually rejected or despised: spiders, moths, mud and menstruation all occupy a privileged position in Redgrove's imaginative universe. Collected Poems by Peter Redgrove ? review 2012-02-10T22:55:02Z Like moths drawn to light, they too flit aimlessly on their ledges, staring at empty streets at once familiar and foreign. Lockdown escapes: where I’ll visit when this is over 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z They depict real things: hallucinogenic flowering plants and a species of moth known to pollinate them. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Last summer Dr. Gordon discovered moths in a beloved blanket belonging to her mother at her Willard Beach home in Maine. Moths Have Been Partying in Your Dark Closet. What Now? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Watch the moths dart above the brasses and bows, fluttering up to the lights. Without Music, Tanglewood Is Empty, Eerie and Beautiful 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z What “most people don’t realize is that the fumes from cedar are toxic to moths only when in very high concentrations,” Professor Farr said. 2010-01-28T05:13:00Z The goal, he said, is to eliminate the moth’s food source. Moths Have Been Partying in Your Dark Closet. What Now? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z More wall inspiration came from the critters we spotted from the cabin deck; we scooped up inexpensive vintage prints of crows and moths on Etsy, then framed them using cheap barn-wood-look frames from Michaels. Pinterest-fueled fantasies help turn a small cabin into a great escape 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The other: Lallone, wearing a diaphanous white gown with winglike sleeves, wafts and whirls in the lights like a silken moth fluttering around a multihued flame. Voil?! A Tune-tooled trip to Paris in ZinZanni show 2011-10-11T00:00:06Z Ooh, hello, that looks interesting, a beautiful moon moth, I'd like to know a bit more about one of them. Excluded and Lost Land of the Tiger 2010-09-22T06:59:00Z But a dream — with a moth, no less — has her rethinking and critiquing her drafts. Review | Michaela Coel takes the television industry to task in ‘Misfits’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z It's easy to see why Ramy becomes a moth to his flame, and we can just as easily see how and why the acolyte won't be the one getting burned in this relationship. "Ramy" Season 2 benefits from the calm, charismatic guidance of Mahershala Ali, as do we all 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z In one set of experiments, Lal and his colleagues pushed thin wires through the hard shell that protects a hawk moth pupa and positioned them in the insect’s neck muscles and brain. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z The edges of our houses is one place moths and butterflies are noticeable this summer. Notes & Queries: What was the funniest TV comedy? 2012-08-01T11:41:48Z Or, more narrowly, to the flatterers, courtiers and women who flitter like moths around the incandescent bulb of his personality. ‘Loro’ Review: A Corrupt Leader, and the People Who Love Him 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z She digs honestly into her own psyche and into those of “people like me,” and she reveals herself as believer and apostate, moth and flame. ‘On Immunity: An Inoculation,’ by Eula Biss 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z He is drawn to life and, at the same time, to self-destruction, like a large-hearted moth to an absurd flame. Books of The Times: ?[sic]: A Memoir,? by Joshua Cody - Review 2011-12-20T22:40:00Z She swam and poked among rock pools down at the beach below, and hunted great-winged moths on rambling nighttime expeditions. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Titled “Dust and Shadows: Sixty-Four Extinctions,” it refers to a 19th-century British moth collector and Oxford University professor who kept his thousands of specimens in biscuit tins. Art Review: ?Swept Away,? at Museum of Arts and Design 2012-04-05T21:43:03Z Professor Miller said, referring to the most-common way moths get into closets — through a single infested item. 2010-01-28T05:13:00Z But the lights weren’t strong enough to attract a moth. Dance Review: A Man of Confliction Takes on Mideast Conflict 2011-01-09T22:57:54Z As an added bonus, lavender also helps to repel fleas, moths, mosquitoes, and many other insects — in case you needed another reason to plant it around your yard. A tour of Ina Garten's garden (naturally, it's thriving) 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z A line from the chorus, "She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress," became "He was a moth to the flames, she was holding the matches." Taylor Swift made a second, subtler lyric change on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z The more the first season of a show delivers, the more the armchair commentariat chews through any subsequent offerings, like moths working through cashmere. Big Little Lies: has season two really been a screaming great flop? 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z “Different pollinators connect with different plants in different ways. Beetles are pollinators. Hummingbirds, flies, bees, moths.” Help butterflies, bees and birds with a pollinator garden in your yard 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The deciduous trees of the North Rim are replaced by prickly pear cactus and aromatic sagebrush, providing home to lizards, and hawk moths after dark. How to hike the Grand Canyon 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Her books are an excavation, an attempt to give shape to her own pain, like a moth who longs to catch the candlelight in its wings. From Miriam Toews, a Tragicomedy About the Dysfunctional World of Adults 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z All researchers had to do to begin steering the moths was plug their control system into the circuit board, a task that took a matter of seconds. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z Several satin looks even fused the flora and fauna of the garden, with dragonflies, moths, beetles and butterflies. Lanvin, Nina Ricci, Balmain are ladylike on day 3 2013-03-01T04:16:08Z The manner in which she says the word suggests that she uses it to titillate — like a moth flying daringly close to a flame. Perspective | André Leon Talley became an icon by never losing faith in the glory of fashion 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z I’ve tried for 21 times, but after 18, I felt like a moth that had flown too close to the flame. My life in sex: ‘I split my time between lovers so I have a reliable supply of male company’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Girls in white nighties flit through woods and hover on window ledges, and furry moths flutter in dusty rooms. | 'The Moth Diaries': ?The Moth Diaries,? Directed by Mary Harron 2012-04-19T23:25:02Z She became particularly cautious after a run-in with moths a few years ago. 2010-01-28T05:13:00Z It’s hard to believe something like South of the Border, the tacky tourist trap that entices thousands of East Coast travelers like moths to a neon flame, still exists. This S.C. roadside attraction is garish, tacky and un-PC — but I stopped anyway 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z She said she missed the Oscars because she was afraid of leaving her belongings subject to further moth damage. Moths Have Been Partying in Your Dark Closet. What Now? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The wires ran out of the moths’ heads and partway down their backs, winding their way into the attached circuit board. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z Still, with the river lapping and the trees susurrating and the moths sizzling, there was poetry enough. In the Hudson Valley, Shakespeare as Man, Myth and Drinking Buddy 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z She added that the house had also suffered infestations from deathwatch beetles and moths over the years. Antiques: Antiques - Khadambi Asalache’s London House Restored 2012-05-31T21:21:28Z And yes, future episodes promise to deal in less obviously scary creatures, like moths. | 'My Extreme Animal Phobia': ?My Extreme Animal Phobia,? on Animal Planet - Review 2011-10-20T21:57:19Z My elderly neighbor who complains his place is overtaken by moths. When the Truth, and My Groom-to-Be, Stood Naked Before Me 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The Hudson never totally receded, especially when train whistles drowned out Olivia’s sighs or a giant moth did its own “to be or not to be” with a stage light. In the Hudson Valley, Shakespeare as Man, Myth and Drinking Buddy 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z “Toads may even be on your steps, looking for moths under outdoor lights,” Hasenstab said. Frogs and toads: What’s the difference? 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z “At night, thanks to the semi-transparency of the shell, the amber tinted light will attract the attention of passers-by, like lamps attracting moths,” the architect said in a news statement. ArtsBeat: Chilean Architect to Design Serpentine Gallery’s Summer Pavilion in London 2014-03-14T11:34:52Z Their Colomychus Chernobilis rug depicts a fictitious moth found in Ukraine’s Red Forest, whose DNA has mutated through exposure to radiation from the 1986 disaster at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Textiles Are Part of the Fabric of Milan Design Week 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z I found myself drawn to those glowing bonuses like a dumb moth, choosing the weighted options every time they appeared. Pretending to Be Famous in The Sims 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z This show became notorious for one joke in particular: "The male gypsy moth can smell the female gypsy moth up to seven miles away," Carr says. Comedy gold: Jimmy Carr's Stand Up 2012-07-12T14:12:27Z The moths’ gray wings fluttered wildly as they tumbled to the ground. Seeing Double With Jasper Johns 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Yet the moth, her taunting inquisitor, is the more clearly written character. Review: Without Singing, the Moth Hits the High Notes in ‘The Echo Drift’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z The acres of swagged and tasseled curtains draping the décor — it’s like Joan Rivers’s apartment up there — show no evidence of moth holes. ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ Retains Its Luster 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z He also ties his performers together; suddenly one body morphs into four, like moths snared in a voluminous web. Review: In ‘Arena,’ Walter Dundervill Uses Fabric as a Foil 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Kids, if you turn off the light, the moths will stop coming. Letterman Has No Love for ‘Damaged’ Trump 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z “Tomboyland” unfolds somewhat chronologically, from Faliveno’s childhood obsession with tornadoes to her adolescent obsession with being an athlete and her adult preoccupations with roller derby, pantry moths, gun culture, class and the idea of motherhood. Review | Melissa Faliveno’s ‘Tomboyland’ essays offer funny, moving explorations of self and society 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z Like moths to a flame, like negative poles to positive ones, like peanut butter in a mouth's roof, so were this week's specimens to Date Lab. Date Lab: ‘He’s the least jaded person I’ve ever met’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z He performed on the festival’s main stage on Saturday, emerging bare-chested under a blizzard of moths that were drawn to the blazing floodlights. A Cutting-Edge Music Festival in Uganda Keeps the Beat 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Millette recommends storing items like rugs in climate-controlled areas of the house, avoiding humid attics or basements, which provide an ideal environment for a moth. Moths Have Been Partying in Your Dark Closet. What Now? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Mulberry silk, from the Bombyx mori silkworm moth’s cocoon, is the most common commercial silk. Silk pillowcases may provide some hair and skin benefits, but they’re not miracle workers 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Mama is not all bad, even if the diet she provides the children with—nothing but cherries and moths—is not exactly balanced. Jessica Chastain Survives the Supernatural in Mama 2013-01-17T13:00:59Z "It's summer time so hay fever and wasps," warns Goggings, who proceeds to complain about moths. New band of the day (Vlks No 1,485) 2013-04-04T14:04:35Z Enlarged, the banded tussock moth takes on a reticulated wing pattern, and its thorax is graced with fine turquoise lines. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “You had to do all these improvisations. The teacher would say, ‘We are two moths on a curtain.’ Don Rickles, lightning-fast launcher of comic insults, dies at 90 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z |
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