Thirsty moth
Tuesday, July 5th, 2005 
This morning there was a moth in the shower, on the window sill. It was a biggish brown moth, and at first I was worried that it would get injured by the water, or it would get soap splashed on it, or conditioner or something. It held still for the first few minutes — I was keeping my eye on it — but then it started to move around. It seemed to have three antennae, and it was feeling around the tiles with one of them. I looked more closely and realized the third antennae was its very long tongue! The moth was feeling the tiles looking for water droplets. It would find one, the tongue would be still for a few moments, and the droplet would disappear. Then the tongue would start feeling around again. It drank a lot of droplets. When it was all done the tongue rolled up neatly under its face. It was cool.