Bogong moths bounce back across eastern Australia

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBogong moths are back in big numbers across eastern Australia, with the endangered species coming back from the brink, The Guardian reports.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'm holding the thermometer. Vera, your take.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHonestly, this is the comeback story of the decade, and somebody get these moths a pageant sash.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMiss Eastern Australia, Miss Congeniality, and Miss Please Stop Flying Into My Lamp.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNOT. The sash would get eaten.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorResearchers tagged more than fourteen thousand moths in February, and ABC News says none have turned up in fifty light traps.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMy take: they know exactly where the traps are, and they're organising.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHOT. Fourteen thousand moths and not one in a trap. I'd have questions too.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHank, that's too generous. One entomologist said it suggests the population may be healthier than estimated. That is not an organised moth.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHealthy is exactly what an organised moth would want us to think.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFine, I'll give it a lukewarm. Now mine.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThese moths crashed by as much as ninety-nine point five percent in twenty seventeen, and that was drought and climate change, not a conspiracy.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI rate the moths HOT. Lost almost all of them, dodged fifty traps, and still can't stay away from a lamp.