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It's National Moth Week!
It's National Moth Week! The event, which runs through Sunday, celebrates "the beauty, life...
Wax moth larvae and a hive beetle (top left). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An infestation of wax moth larvae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Sneaky Moth
The female Greater Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella) is a sneaky creature.She flies around bee hives...
A DEAD MOTH, a Greater Wax Moth, collected outside a bee hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
THIS FROZEN FRAME from a hive near Winters, Calif., shows wax moth larvae and a small hive beetle (black insect on the top left). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)