It is the spring of the former Colorado range, which means the area will soon get a lot of influx of moths.

Colorado is home to thousands of moth species, many of which hatch from the winter of hibernation, known as quarantine.

At night, moths often visit porch lights, stadium lights and street lights, a collective term for most nighttime members of the insect order, called Lepidoptera. Butterflies are also part of this order, but they are mostly day-night or active. Butterflies are actually just part of the moth, so all butterflies are moths, but not all moths are butterflies.

The former range is located on the path of spring migration, usually in this part of the country, including Colorado and neighboring countries, is the "Miller Moth." Miller moth caterpillars are often called "military cutworms", a whimsical name referring to the massive trend of caterpillars tending to look for food all over the fields and roads. The moths and their caterpillars are quite monotonous and brown in color, although the moths are variable in pattern.

Many people find the Miller moth a nuisance, and the caterpillar may be a pest. But the Miller Moth is a native species in Colorado, playing a major role throughout the plains and entering the Highlands.

I am an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado Boulder University and a curator of the Entomology Collection. I learnt moths from all over the world. I was particularly fascinated by the large moth population known as yeast, the superfamily to which the Miller moths and their relatives belong.

As an entomologist, I crisscross and search for moths for my ongoing evolution, classification and life history research. During the Miller moth migration, they may pile up my moth traps, which are made up of bright light in front of white sheets. The crushing of Miller moths made it more challenging for me to find more uncommon species in a dusty brown ocean.

What makes the Miller Moth so unique?

In temperate regions, like most parts of North America, most moths hibernate during the cold winter. During this time, they are in the p-stage of dormant. Some species rotate cocoons. They then hatch into adult moths, companions, lay eggs, and grow in spring and summer. In autumn, the cycle begins.

Although Miller moths also have a hibernation period, not most moths. Instead, the Miller Moths will spend the winter part of the plains of Eastern Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska and nearby states instead of partially grown caterpillars instead of a small caterpillars starting to feed in late summer. This puts the caterpillar at an advantage. Once the weather gets warmer, wheat and alfalfa (such as wheat and alfalfa) produce new, nutrient-rich leaves in early spring, caterpillars can feast and can cause serious damage to crops within a few years of the outbreak.

The compounds then occur later in the spring, unlike most Lepidoptera, where adult moths hatch without prolonged pupal diapause, but start to migrate westward. They travel over 100 miles (about 160 kilometers) to higher elevations, looking for flowering plants, feed on nectar, and pollinate with pollination.

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This migration is a place where people in the former range are too familiar with these tired travelers, seeking narrow spaces to rest and often climb into gaps in cars and houses. Inside the house, Miller moths do not feed, breed or lay eggs. The sudden agitation of stationary moths may cause them to fly around and find a new hidden point - that is, if your domestic cat doesn't look at them first. If they do get inside, they can easily sweep them into a cup or jar and place outside.

The people in the front row experienced a second run-in after feeding the summer on the mountain from August to September when they fed the summer on the mountain and then returned to the plain to produce eggs.

Call of night

Many Colorado people are familiar with the importance of pollinators. The state provides a number of resources and groups to help create spaces that attract butterflies and bees, including a designated Interstate 76 initiative as the Colorado Pollinator Highway.

But when the sun sets, pollination does not stop. In fact, in terms of the number of species worldwide, moths constitute the largest proportion of pollinators, rather than the sum of bees and butterflies. But scientists have not figured out which plant, Miller moth, pollinates.

Although moths are important to agriculture and ecology compared to bees, we know nothing about nighttime pollinators. Of the thousands of moths in Colorado, science still doesn’t know hundreds. One of the reasons scientists study moths is to literally shed light on these insects in the environment to understand what they are doing.

My work aims to understand the diet of certain moths in the caterpillar stage, but other researchers and my colleague at the University of Colorado Boulder University, Dr. Julian Resasco, looked at the plants that adults feed when pollinate.

Colorado Moth

Moths are one of the main aerial insects at night and play an important, perhaps, leadership role in the insect-feeding bat diet. There were so many Miller moths during their migration to the mountains that they were so much protein and fat meals from animals as big as bears.

Given that we know very little about moths, it is important to realize that light pollution, habitat loss and agrochemicals all affect the number of moths, resulting in an annual decline in these insects around the world.

So the next time you see a Miller moth in Colorado or any moth anywhere on Earth, remember it works on the night shift. Become that light so that it can be used.