say something nice about moths

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is it possible to get lyrical about little insects that sleep by day and at night eat the best bits of your shirts and sweaters?

― dakatin, Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"Over this odd world, this half of the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears"

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

moths are CUTE! and not half so flashy as butterflies, of course

― Gordon (Gordon), Saturday, 9 November 2002 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

No, sorry. Our old keyboardist used to be almost pyschotically afraid of moths, and I think she infected me with her phobia. Especially when Frannie from Travis start blubbing on about how much he hated them on the VH1 Storytellers thing. "They KNOW!!! They KNOW when you HAAAATE them, so they come AFTER yooouuuu!!!" {cue much swatting around his head)

― kate, Saturday, 9 November 2002 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

they are better metaphor insects than cockroaches!! (NB. kafka's story is about a beetle, as any ~~proper translator~~ fule knows)

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, but one man's DUNG BEETLE is another man's SCARAB, GOTH SUPREME EGYPTIAN RULER OF THE UNIVERRRRSE!!!

― kate, Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

haha joe k meets the mummy!!

best moth ever - leucania linita, a stalwart little champ
http://www.daltonstate.edu/galeps/images/jpegs/Noctuidae/Leucaniasp.jpg
(photo by j.adams i think)

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

(i spent hours last week e-mailing noted lepidopterists, getting permission to use their photographs in some cover-artwork. they are all insanely nice!!)

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

this one can grow to 25 feet in length and feeds on DDBs kate - look how cute!!

http://www3.islandtelecom.com/~oehlkew/palunam.jpg

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Every summer Colorado is attacked by a flock of moths from Kansas. I hate the little buggers. Let them die. However, something nice about them--they are fun to kill.

― Mandee, Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm w/ Kate - moths give me the creeps. Most terrifying film ever made - 'The Blood Beast Terror'!

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

This flat is stupidly full of moths. Though they haven't affected my grannie's KILT yet, which is the first thing moths usually go for. They're too busy working on Landlady's JUNK collection. I fear for her books... They do not provoke homicidal killing rages like sight of spiders and my mum, but I usually have to put them out of their (read: my) misery. Yuck.

(It took me quite some time to realise post-loo break that i had switched the CD before I left, and was nolonger listening to DDB's but actually Crystals.)

― kate, Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

the big hairy ones always dive bomb me, which kind of puts me off them as 'nice' creatures. plus my friend told me when we were 10 that they go in your ears so for years i had a 'moth in the ear'phobia. ( we were 10, ok )

but apart from the ear thing and the dive bombing i like moths. unless they get in the car and fly at me when im driving.

― donna (donna), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

What about June Bugs? AKA, those big black crunchy bugs which fly in through windows to terrify Kate... not cockroachs, even bigger than cockraoches and scary and WINGED and black, and head straight for goths' decolette, as happened to my poor girlfriend when some lardass redneck boy was taking her home ... ooh, ooh, icky, her breasts crushed the poor bug, didn't know who to feel scaried for, the crushed bug or the goth girlfriend for having bug down bra... YUCK!!!

― kate, Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

There were a brace of moths hiding in the pantry, so alas they had to be slain and their eggs destroyed. Our lovely food, ruined by them!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I will always remember this post.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

your firstborn is mine raggett
http://community-2.webtv.net/bugguy4/SATURNIIDAEGiant/media/captureD9.jpg

― (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

(bah this is not my day for photos)

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh no! Red dot with white X in it! OH NO!!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:43 (twenty-three years ago)

moths are good because it takes virtually no time to kill them!

― sand.y, Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm?
http://www.avia-art.com/godzillawebsite/g-images/mothra.jpeg

("Wingspan: 250 meters (820 ft.). Mass: 20,000 metric tons (22,000 tons)")

― mothra (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

the nicest lepidopterists ever!
http://www.avia-art.com/godzillawebsite/g-images/eriasu.jpeg

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

dammit!! again:
http://www.avia-art.com/godzillawebsite/g-images/eriasu.jpeg

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, but does it eat dirty dronerock boys?

And nirror girls from Flock Of Seaguls video that eat electoclash new romantic boys are CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR, JONES!!!

― kate, Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

kate mothra devours entire SCENES!!! (but only evil ones)

(haha yes dronerock = DOOMED)

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Fukc all u h4t4z. I like moths. They are cute & furry, & have appealing little faces.

― N0RM4N PH4Y, Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

YES, but can even MOTHRA take on the PHABULOUS PALLBEARERS

(Who won the purple teddy bear that stayed pinned to my lapel Sebastian Flyte/Courtney Love stylee for the better part of the mid 90s)

― kate, Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

norman i'm told they buzz in /\/rs3 3lit3!!

heh okay kate "golden man" might just triumph there!

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

(?? my haX0R attempt got corrupted somehow. yes i am a fraud.)

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Inspector Clousseau saying "moth" was excellent

― C J (C J), Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

(i meant "morse elite". the norse elite you've already met)

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Irene Moon likes moths, so they must rule.

― Dave Fischer, Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

who is she then?

― dakatin, Sunday, 10 November 2002 10:40 (twenty-three years ago)

("Wingspan: 250 meters (820 ft.). Mass: 20,000 metric tons (22,000 tons)")

this just don't work. And now that Stephen Jay Gould's dead there is no-one to tell us why. Damn.

But anyway, they have nice feathery antennae, in contrast to butterflies' horrible knobbly ones.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 10 November 2002 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

and if you touch them they leave magic glow-dust on your fingers (which actually saddens me somehow - I don't want to take it away from them)

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 10 November 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Elizabeth Bishop's The Man-Moth

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 10 November 2002 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

man-moth > mothman. that prophecies picture was gere-iffic.

― jones (actual), Sunday, 10 November 2002 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Irene Moon does performance art science lectures, generally revolving around insects.

― Dave Fischer, Monday, 11 November 2002 01:09 (twenty-three years ago)

the big problem with moths is that they come from caterpillars, which are the worst things in the world. and then they turn into moth and LAY EGGS TO MAKE MORE CATERPILLARS. they are evil embodied and the only nice thing about moths is that they, themselves, are not caterpillars at the same time as being moths.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 11 November 2002 03:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw, caterpillars are not the worst things in the world. When I was little I though those big fuzzy Wooly Bear caterpillers were the cutest things ever. If we're talking Tomato Horn Worms on the other hand, you may have a point.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 11 November 2002 03:55 (twenty-three years ago)

this is my bedroom light:

http://www.dirty.org/~minna/images/light-new.jpg

i've had a big moth living in my room for the past few nights but it doesn't come and bother me by swooping around my reading lamp, it stays and cavorts with its friends on my ceiling light.

― minna (minna), Monday, 11 November 2002 07:43 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/LeopardMothBlueSpots_edit2.jpg/800px-LeopardMothBlueSpots_edit2.jpg

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/jim/bombyxin_moth.jpg

GREETINGS

― Jarlrmai, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

awesome

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

repulsion thy name is moth

― rent, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

^^^

Seriously, fuck a moth. They are all over our house at the moment and are driving me insane.

― Bella Swan Song (Susan), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

that blue n white spotted guy is sooooo cooooool, if i ever get a spaceship i want it to look like that.

― ledge, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

i seriously can't handle moths. i don't know why.

― rent, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

something about their fat, furry little bodies makes me want to scream.

― rent, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

great now i'm screaming.

― rent, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

moths are the best

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

i had no idea anyone didn't like them

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:26 (seventeen years ago)

i mean i guess i thought some people were ambivalent

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:26 (seventeen years ago)

AAAAAH MOTHS

― Jordan, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

i dislike the ones that eat my sweaters, but other than that cool and fluffy. The man who lives opposite my step-mother's holiday cottage is a moth expert and he has a number of no-kill traps hanging outside and is only too happy to show you all kinds of exciting moths.

― Ed, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

They seriously skeeve me out. Least favorite insect next to roaches. They have a habit of flying right into you.

― Bella Swan Song (Susan), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/120/261977569_a8e45034ac_o.jpg

― Kerm, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:31 (seventeen years ago)

so cute

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)

i wish they were actually that big

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)

Despite my deep love for Girl of the Limberlost Elnora Comstock and HER deep and abiding love for moths, the furry little fuckers skeeve me right out. GET (WAP) AWAY (WAP WAP)!!

― Fred Dalton Township (Laurel), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:36 (seventeen years ago)

i wish they glowed in the dark so didn't give as much of a shit about light. my uniqlo wool sweater got devoured but i will forgive.

― Thematically it's like a queer-Pipecock (blueski), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)

The Indian Meal Moths that hatch in my cornmeal and flour can eat a dick but they won't.

― brownie, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

thats gross yeah but like, get one jar

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

their eggs are already in the flour- jar or not.

― brownie, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:40 (seventeen years ago)

ok, then stop buying flour with moth eggs in it, is my advice

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:44 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/photos/sevcik/eyes-of-the-sphinx-moth--lisaj.jpg

― NickB, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:44 (seventeen years ago)

Put the grain/cereal products in the freezer to keep the fuckers from hatching.

― Bella Swan Song (Susan), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:46 (seventeen years ago)

moth apologists everywhere I look

― brownie, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:48 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.cairns.com.au/images/uploadedfiles/editorial/pictures/2008/05/15/Cairns-WebWide-CP16MAY08P003-CC097771-MOTH.jpg
hi dere

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:51 (seventeen years ago)

http://dontclickthis.whatingods.name/moth.jpg

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:51 (seventeen years ago)

That first picture up there made me want to puke.

― Bella Swan Song (Susan), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

^^ how could you not love that cuddly adowable thing./

― Ed, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

that giant moth ate all that kid's clothes

― metametadata (n/a), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

that is such a MUPPET!

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:53 (seventeen years ago)

OK, who else thought this said "say something nice about morbs"?

― jaymc, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:55 (seventeen years ago)

the thread that MUST be made

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:55 (seventeen years ago)

only if we can get him some feathery antennae.

― Ed, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:56 (seventeen years ago)

morbs never hatched in my cornmeal

― brownie, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:57 (seventeen years ago)

well thats a plus

― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:58 (seventeen years ago)

morbs ate my clothes

― Jarlrmai, Thursday, 13 November 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.onlyinternet.net/awinterrowd/kaiju/gallery/mothra.jpg

― balloon in a sack (latebloomer), Thursday, 13 November 2008 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

lord of all moths

― balloon in a sack (latebloomer), Thursday, 13 November 2008 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

I think we have an infestation of these insufferable little cunts.

― ROBOT PENIS (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 January 2009 11:38 (seventeen years ago)

That's not very nice!

I think we have an infestation of these insufferable little cute cunts.

(there, fixed it for you)

― StanM, Sunday, 25 January 2009 11:56 (seventeen years ago)

terrifying creatures

― jordy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 25 January 2009 11:59 (seventeen years ago)

say something nice about moths

so scary

― jordy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 25 January 2009 12:00 (seventeen years ago)

Did that "say something nice about morbs" thread ever happen?

― StanM, Sunday, 25 January 2009 12:01 (seventeen years ago)

don't think so.

my parents' house has a hidden colony of clothesmoths, despite various different kinds of mothball - and spray cans of DOOM - in full employ. They are very flat compared to the more photographed moths - they seem to jump more than fly - and their wings dissolve into gold dust on your fingers. i quite like them, despite the holes in my woollens, how little and drab they are.

― king lame (c sharp major), Sunday, 25 January 2009 14:14 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

lotta moth hate here, bu i kinda think these things are bros. i mean, they don't really do much good around the house or anything, but they can chill on the wall like few other and generally have pretty dope fashion

― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 10:22 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, i've always been weirded out by moth fear. they seem to be okay. some people get all freaked out though. i would like to have them hang out without it being a big deal. they could even eat some wool or something.

― miss danilelle steven and her clitoral stimulator (contenderizer), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 10:33 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Their ambient music is quite nice

a narrative piece for wounded moths
the third and final piece to a trilogy started by 'glass fawn'
for elegy, the fox of tattered cloth

http://uncertain.bandcamp.com/releases

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:37 (fourteen years ago)

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