Why This London Museum Had to Turn Its Moths Gay

[KamaAina]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/19/why-this-london-museum-had-to-turn-its-moths-gay.html

There’s scientific warfare happening—and it’s turning straight moths gay.

The sexuality switcheroo happened after the Natural History Museum set out to eradicate a long-standing issue with cloth-eating insects....

As a male moth crawls across the chalk-like powder, the overwhelming amount of hormones stuns them while other males confuse them for females.

“You are effectively taking them out of the mating cycle,” Georgina Donovan, a spokesperson for Exosect, the agriculture technology company who developed the method, told The Daily Beast. “All you’re doing is confusing the moth population. While they spend all the extra time trying to find the right mates, it’s reducing offspring.”

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. Does this de-activate their mothballs? nt

[KamaAina]

2. Go to your room!