The sweater is moth-eaten.
But he gave her "a queer sort of moth-and-flame feeling", so she followed.
I kept for nearly a year the flask-shaped cocoon of an emperor moth.
As I opened the garage door, I startled a large moth, which, upon spreading it's wings, displayed a bright red "tail" hidden by the motley brown wings, more a "butterfly" than a moth.
The titi is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed with wings and soaring.
Chinese scientists have inserted scorpion and moth genes into oilseed rape (canola) plants to make them poisonous to insects feeding on them.
Amid the multitudes in sleek evening garb, the molting birds had the look of disheveled bounders or tipplers in moth-eaten raccoon coats.
For a small bay lies westward a little, where he who watches night after night may see a certain rare moth fluttering along the edge of the tide, just at the end of evening or the beginning of dawn.
