89K views · 3.7K reactions | Hello! I’m building a new studio space. It’s under construction. It’s exciting and I’ll have a permanent space for “The Daily Moth.” I want to let you know that this week, I will be out of town on a family vacation and there will be no “The Daily Moth” news videos this week. We’ll be back the week of August 5. Have a nice week and stay with the light. Transcript: www.dailymoth.com/blog/moth-on-one-week-break | The Daily Moth | Facebook

Happy #NationalMothWeek! While it's well-known that moths are attracted to light, you can also lure them in with a concoction of ripe bananas, molasses, and stale beer. Caution: you might attract some humans with this, too. #MothFactMonday #Moths #TheMoth #ScienceFacts #MothWeek | The Moth

Tomorrow marks the first day of #nationalmothweek! National Moth Week celebrates the beauty, life cycles, and habitats of moths - it’s a citizen science effort to encouraged people to learn about, observe, and document moths in their backyards, parks, and neighborhoods. In my hand is Hyalophora cecropia that I raised, the largest native moth in North America. Such a beautiful pattern and wing span! Remarkably these big moths have no functional mouth parts, they simply live for one week in which