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An adult clothes moth has never eaten anything. It has no mouth. Your sweater was eaten by a larva—the size of a grain of rice, which you almost never see. That's just the beginning. Ten minutes about the moths in your closet—twenty minutes about creatures that drink the tears of sleeping birds, steal honey from bees using a chemical password, and were predicted by Darwin forty years before their discovery. One order. 180,000 species. 100 million years. ──────────────────────────────────── ⏱ CHAPTERS ─────────────────────────────────── 00:00 — Clothes Moths: Who's Really Eating Your Clothes 09:33 — Why Moths Fly to Light: The Broken Compass of Evolution 11:00 — Volatiles Mice vs. Moths: 50 Million Years of Ultrasonic Warfare 14:04 — Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas): 30 cm of Wings and Not a Single Meal 15:18 — Death's Head Hawk Moth: A Skull, a Chemical Password, and Stealing Honey from Bees 16:42 — Darwin's Moth: A Prediction 40 Years Before Discovery 18:27 — Lacryphagia: Moths That Drink the Tears of Sleeping Birds and People 19:33 — Night Pollination: Why the Extinction of Moths Is More Dangerous Than It Seems 21:22 — Silkworm and the Great Silk Road: The Caterpillar That Changed History 25:27 — Actias luna (Luna Moth): 7 Days of Life and Beauty as a Weapon Against Bats 27:24 — Just a Moth Light bulbs ────────────────────────────────── 📚 SOURCES ──────────────────────────────── — Scoble, M.J. "The Lepidoptera: Form, Function, and Diversity" (1992) — Bänziger, H. — Lacryphagy in Lepidoptera, tears of birds and mammals (1988–2011) — Fullard, J.H. — Tympanic organs of moths and an acoustic duel with bats — Corcoran, A.J., Conner, W.E. — Ultrasonic clicks of female bears, acoustic mimicry (2012) — Arditti, J. et al. "Good Heavens what insect can suck it" — Coevolution of Angraecum sesquipedale and Xanthopan morganii praedicta (2012) — Warrant, E. et al. — Navigation of nocturnal insects by the moon and stars — Macgregor, C.J. et al. — Nocturnal pollination, Biology Letters (2019, 2020) — Rothamsted Research / UK Moths — Long-term monitoring of UK moth populations — Yoshida, Y. et al. — Genomics and domestication of Bombyx mori — UNESCO — Data on the Silk Road ─────────────────────────────────── 📺 The Living Nature Channel — every week about the creatures we overlook. #moth #moth #insects #nature #livingnature #wildnature