One reason not to keep on the porch light is coleopteraphobia.
Curb Girl: what an urban-based accidental journalist accidentally thinks when she's falling face-first on figurative pavement
Curb Girl: what an urban-based accidental journalist accidentally thinks when she's falling face-first on figurative pavement
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It's hard: http://bugguide.net/node/view/60
Most of these sound ominious. Wood borers, fungus eaters, root killers …
Worse, it's a moth. From the web worms (haven't seen those); come, all ye night birds and bats and eat these suckers! (The other things congregating around the light are beetles indeed: ladybugs, june bugs. Yes, and other moths.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1762
Seems like it's not the "bad" webworm we think of, but something that indicates one has bad trees. Aren't these things everywhere (in my yard):
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/aial1.htm
do you remember how long it used to take to look this sort of thing up at a library? (then you're old.) i do, since i'm old enough. i know, i know, what am i doing here instead of sleeping or working?
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