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by landofredwater 1180 days ago
If we start losing the moths it'll be even harder to bring back from the brink than bees.

Like the proverbial starving migrant, unpopular animals are left to the wayside[0]; bees making honey and being well known plays to their advantage, but I'm 100% sure you could tell someone moths are going extinct and their response would be "finally, my closet was shrinking every year!"

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-ugly-anima...