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My kid bedtime TV is not the other kids’ bedtime TV
Half-asleep Vitya, standing on his bed and well on his way to the most amazing dreams, is mesmerized by a fairytale scene of bats hunting for huge white moths outside of his cabin window. He was born in this cabin exactly 13 months before...
Satin moths (Leucoma salicis) came to N. America from Europe with timber shipments in 1920s and since established on both coasts. Their caterpillars feed on aspens and the last aspen tree in otherwise solid spruce neighborhood of the cabin was eliminated by beavers this August. So the huge white moths will stay in his early childhood dreams -- psychological consequences of ecological turnovers.
