speaking of mothsin colorado (southwestern u.s.) the summer time (usually mid-june to mid-august) is filled with miller moths. they're real annoying because if you leave any light (even a small thing, like a clock on - with out blinds or shades or whatever on the window) at night, they find any way they can to get to it, and fill up the whole room. fortunately, we had cruel techniques for moth extinguishing... two particular ways that we would do it were to open up the back of a large fan and slowly feed them through, watch the shredded moth come through the front, and then laugh like little 7th grade girls... it was just that amusing. another thing to do was to get those stand up lamps that have the little shade/bowl around the lightbulb at the top (and make sure it's an adjustable one that the light can be faded on) and we would toss the moths on and watch them burn - usually, you had to catch one and throw it on real quick with the light at max. that way they'd get stuck burning on it. the most amusing part was turning the light up and down (so that there wasn't a fire or anything) and watching the moth smolder... the amount of moths made for great fun if you had any enemies at work, though.
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