Posted on 09/30/2018 7:34:41 PM PDT by Rebelbase
A horde of moths has invaded a small French town, leaving its residents fed up and unable to walk out at night.
The town of Oyonnax, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France, has been host to thousands and thousands of boxwood moths for the past few weeks, according to locals.
Footage, filmed by Gaelle Lecompte earlier this month, shows a ‘cloud’ of the little critters sticking to windows and flying around the streetlights.
Box moths, and especially the caterpillars before they become moths, can be particularly destructive to gardens and hedges. Native to East Asia, the insects have only appeared in Europe in the last 10 years.
According to LiveScience, moths are attracted to unnatural light sources because their light throws off the insects’ internal navigation systems.
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All their food (Lots of other bugs) and poop are depositied and is acidic and will rip the fine finish right off the walls.
UNNM entomologists were amazed at the # of plain ‘ol ‘Millier’ Moths that were attracted to the newly constructed triangular shape of our LORAN X-mitting tower as well as the 100,000 watts of power @ 100Khrts. The moths had thought they found their master mother creator a year after we turned on the transmitter the middle of the New Mexico desert. Those damn moths were eating the concrete and rubber caulking holding the building together as well as stripping every live plant for miles. I had special made 10’long big blue bug zappers for them. The birds loved that part because piles of fried moths are pretty good for breakfast, I guess.
Insects are specialists. We dont know exactly what they are specialists at, but they are very good at doing what ever they do. And they are some of the most thorough creatures on the planet.
I wish my honey bees had half a good a year as every other insect in my yard this year.
Hi Delta 21,
Thanks for the explanation. What a mess things become when two worlds collide. Hope you can find a moth repellent soon.
I’ve seen the same thing on mountaintop transmitter sites. I think it is a function of the power levels that seem to draw them rather than a specific frequency. Which leads me to think it is the electro-magnetic field energy effecting them and causing them to go crazy like they do. Would be interesting to study and surprised if some university hasn’t already done so. Thanks for that experience.
'Time' was the only thing that worked. They slowly went away. Everything we puny human's tried was useless and usually counter productive! A few thousand returned the next year but nothing like the 1st time! 1st year x-mission musta pegged their radar pretty good.
They would ball up so big across the lightning protectors that they would actually discharge 100,000 Watts to ground and we would have to scram around to get the transmitter back on line.
Coupla barrels of DDT might help.
UNM smart guys studied them for over a week. Said it was the repetitive triangular shape of the structure (700’ straight up guyed tower), the newness of the structure (curious creatures explore and find things,) the power output (military LORAN-C 9610-X SST) and frequency, and resulting magnetic effects on the volcanic makeup of the Pecos River basin.
In other words they were completely dumbfounded as to why billions of moths decided to congregate where and when they did and were absolutely no help at getting rid of them. (But Im sure they all had peer reviewed Phd’s hanging on their walls.
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