1) Adult silkworm 2) Agricultural pest insect 3) Army worm, eventually 4) Armyworm, eventually 5) Atlas or gypsy 6) Browntail 7) Bug around a bulb 8) Bulb circler 9) Butterfly cousin 10) Butterfly impersonator 11) Butterfly kin 12) Butterfly look-alike 13) Butterfly relative 14) Candle circler 15) Cecropia
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1) Arctiid 2) Bombycid 3) Eggar 4) Gelechiid 5) Geometrid 6) Hawkmoth 7) Lasiocampid 8) Luna 9) Lymantriid 10) Noctuid 11) Pyralid 12) Saturniid 13) Sphingid 14) Tineoid 15) Tortricid 16) Tweedkiller
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The moths are a paraphyletic group of insects related to the butterflies and belonging to the order Lepidoptera. Most lepidopterans are moths and there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which are yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species. ==Differences...
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[dinghy] The Moth Class is the name for a small development class of sailing dinghy. Originally a cheap home built sailing boat designed to plane, now it is an expensive largely commercially produced boat designed to to hydroplane on foils. Many of the older design moths still exist and are fun recreational boats but far slower. ==Types== T...
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• (n.) Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth. • (n.) A mote. • (n.) Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc. • (n.) Any one of various other ...
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(from the article `De Havilland, Sir Geoffrey`) ...test pilot for the Aircraft Manufacturing Company and produced a number of successful fighters and light bombers. In September 1920 he formed the ...
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(from the article `Sailing`) The 3.4-m (11-ft) Moth class continued its move toward another breakthrough technology—flying on foils. In this `open` class, modern materials made ...
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any of more than 150,000 species of overwhelmingly nocturnal flying insects that, along with the butterflies and skippers, constitute the order ... [12 related articles]
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1. <zoology> Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth. ... 2. <zoology> Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc. ... 3. <zoology> Any one of vario...
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Moth (mŏth)
noun A mote. [ Obsolete]
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Moth noun ;
plural Moths (mŏthz). [ Middle English
mothe , Anglo-Saxon
moððe ; akin to Dutch
mot , German
motte , Icelandic
motti , and probably to English
mad an earthworm. Confer
Mad ,
noun ,
Mawk...
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Moth is a page to Armado in Love's Labour's Lost.
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The moth is an insect family, being one of the order of Lepidoptera.
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The Moth was a British biplane. It was cheap, reliable and easy to fly making it popular with the general public. The RAF used it as a primary trainer aircraft. The Moth entered production in 1931 and ended after the Second World War.
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HMS Moth was a British River Gunboat of 625 tons displacement designed by the Yarrow company during the Great War and launched in 1915 and sunk during the Second World War. HMS Moth was powered by Yarrow boilers providing a top speed of 14 knots. She carried a complement of between 54 and 65 and was armed with two 6 inch guns; one 3 inch anti-aircr...
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[n] - typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae
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Lepidoptera - butterflies and Moths/Order Lepidoptera are probably the most widely studied order of invertebrates. The Order comprises some 160,000 species.
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noun typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae
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Any of a large number of mainly night-flying insects closely related to butterflies. Their wings are covered with microscopic scales. Most moths have a long sucking mouthpart (proboscis) for feeding on the nectar of flowers, but some have no functional mouthparts and rely instead upon stores of f...
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any of numerous insects of the order Lepidoptera, generally distinguished from the butterflies by having feathery antennae and by having crepuscular or nocturnal habits. · See
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