They sleep with the windows open, the moths battering their wings against the mesh screens.
There were no signs of moths or other pests that normally invade sick colonies.
Now, with the clean air brought by anti-pollution legislation, British peppered moths are once again peppered.
One of the team's ideas is to fit male sphinx moths with small, radio-controlled pheromone dispensers.
There are thousands of candidates mostly other species of bees, but perhaps also certain moths or thrips.
These moths must rely on some other way of not becoming a bat's lunch.
And those moths with the highest wing loadings also have the highest body temperatures.
In summer, the headlands light up with pink thrift and plum-coloured heather, attracting rare moths and butterflies.
Nightjars perching on the road as they hunted moths ricocheted into the dark, almost under his wheel.
The aristocrats are frivolous to the point of mania, swilling sparkling cocktails dressed as wolves and moths.
But 4% of the moths they studied lacked such ears, and are thus reckoned to be deaf.
The oak processionary caterpillars become more of a health risk in May in the final stages before becoming moths.
The air was alive with moths and the chirrups of frogs and cicadas.
It is thought the moths were brought into the UK on trees imported from Europe for a landscape project.
Channelling Grace Kelly, she inhabits the stage like a beam of light, rendering everyone else as hapless and transfixed as moths.
Repellent only helps so much as flies, gnats, mosquitoes and gigantic brown moths the size of a fist buzzed around our heads.
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When Dr Rydell and Dr Lancaster compared deaf and hearing moths from a wide range of habitats, they discovered how it is done.
Remember those gross, tiny moths that got into something in the pantry a few months ago, and it was really distressing was it the rice?
Brian Smith and his colleagues at Ohio State University have recently shown that sphinx moths can be manipulated like dogs as well as donkeys.
The deaf species are invariably larger than those with ears, having an average wingspan of 47mm, compared with hearing moths' average span of 32mm.
Van Engelsdorp poked around inside it, looking for signs of wax moths or small hive beetles, insects that prey on weak colonies, but found none.
As the sun sets each night, a black cloud emerges from under the bridge as the creatures go in search of moths and other bugs to call dinner.
The team is already looking forward to the next version of the technology: digital cameras that imitate the compound eyes of shrimp, lobsters, moths and houseflies.
Lead author Jonathan Dyhr from University of Washington explained that - in terms of insect models - moths provided a particularly interesting basis for miniaturised robots.
"I think night-flying moths and night-flying locusts could benefit from using a star compass similar to the one that the dung beetles are using, " she said.
It's thought they will be a continuing problem until later in the summer when they are expected to spend four weeks cocooned before they turn into moths.
At the Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Ohio, researchers are developing drones that replicate the flight mechanics of moths, hawks and other inhabitants of the natural world.
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He went on to add that the TAF is an auction conducted every other week over the course of six-moths, while the TSLF is a regular weekly acution.
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