moth

Example Sentences

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The Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion is back, with up to 30 butterfly and moth species, as well as an assortment of California plants.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

"Everyone else is like a moth to flame."

From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025

Prof Russell Wynn, Director of Wild New Forest, said the Little Arboreal Ladybird's had been found in moth traps across the New Forest but "there were no confirmed British Records prior to this influx".

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2025

A classic example often taught in high school biology classes is that of industrial melanism in the peppered moth, a British species tha looks, well, "peppered," with black dots on a mostly white background.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2025

It wasn’t sunrise or a crushed moth that had broken this dream, but Thyon Nero pitching pebbles.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor