Finding magic in a moth

2005-07-21 / Front Page


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AMAZED WITH ITS DELICATENESS AND GENTLENESS—Omega Mejia, center, is flanked

by her children, Lilliana, 2, and Taylor Berry, 5, of Thousand Oaks. All three are fascinated by a

silk moth balanced on the fingertips of Taylor. They visited  the Thousand Oaks Library on

Saturday to learn about spiders, moths, millipedes and scorpions from visiting entomologisSue Van Vorhis.  It  takes more than 250 moth cocoons just  to make one silk  tie,  she  saidBILL SPARKES/Acorn Newspapers AMAZED WITH ITS DELICATENESS AND GENTLENESS—Omega Mejia, center, is flanked by her children, Lilliana, 2, and Taylor Berry, 5, of Thousand Oaks. All three are fascinated by a silk moth balanced on the fingertips of Taylor. They visited the Thousand Oaks Library on Saturday to learn about spiders, moths, millipedes and scorpions from visiting entomologisSue Van Vorhis. It takes more than 250 moth cocoons just to make one silk tie, she said

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