What s the deal with a bunch of moths in the kitchen at home?

Among insects, moths are the sister of butterflies and belong to the order Lepidoptera, the suborder Heterogeneus. Moths are not as beautiful as butterflies, but they fall in love in a similar way.

On the body of the female moth grows a special chemical called extrasexual hormones. Through the diffusion of extrasexual hormones, male moths are attracted from distant places and mated. Although the amount of extrasexual hormones secreted is small, the effect is very large.

It is said that a female dance moth can attract 1 million male moths as long as it secretes micrograms of extrasexual hormones. Male moths have particularly well-developed olfactory organs, and their antennae tend to grow into feathers or ctenophores, so they are very sensitive to the extrasexual hormones released by female moths, and can almost sense information with only a few molecules. When the wind speed was 100 centimeters per second, the male moth still responded to the extrasexual hormones of the female moth thousands of kilometers away, but lost this response after removing the antennae.

The way moths use their scent to find a mate is called "chemical communication" in biology.

Moths are completely metamorphosed insects that go through four stages of development throughout their lives: egg, larva, pupa and adult. The larvae are completely different from the adults in morphological structure and living habits. Except for a few species of adult insects that suck fruit juice, most of the adults do not harm crops, and most of the larvae harm crops, fruit trees, and forest trees.

Therefore, people use the "chemical communication" characteristics of moths to isolate and measure the structure of many moth pest exohormones, and synthesize them artificially to trap and kill male moths to achieve the purpose of biological control.

Moths are mostly active at night and like to gather in bright places, so there is a folk proverb that "moths burn themselves when they put out fires".

The moth uses the moonlight to determine its direction at night, and always makes the moonlight enter the compound eye from its side and at an angle, because the moon is far away from the earth, and the moth is easy to mistake the light fire for the moonlight, and circle around the light in a spiral trajectory, and even pounce into the fire.

Many nocturnal insects fight fires because the flowers reflect light at night, and the brighter they are, the stronger the UV reflection. Nocturnal insects are attracted by strong light sources, and moths are also in this category. It may be a similar situation in many homes near your home.

Moths to the fire, yearning for the light o( o! ．

It should be the dried vegetables and other raw insects placed in your home, check it carefully

Your house is so charming, moths are flying to your house! O( O haha