The final report from the Independent Panel on Forestry, for example, illustrates the build-up of diseases such as Asian longhorn beetle in broadleaved trees, Cryphonectria parasitica on sweet chestnut, oak processionary moth, acute oak decline, and other fungal diseases on a range of trees.
Characters' names are similarly chosen: Cynthia is the scientific name of the painted lady, while Dr Viridana is named after the green oak moth (Tortix viridana).
She is also credited with coining the term 'bug', after a problem with the Harvard Mark I: "Finally, someone located the trouble spot and, using ordinary tweezers, removed the problem, a two-inch moth," she recalled.
Ironically, despite all this, there isn't actually a single live moth or butterfly in the film.
Like a moth to the flame, Monis rushed out to the assembled media and stood gesticulating, long robes fluttering, proclaiming dramatically: "This pen is my gun and these words are my bullets".
In The Silence of the Lambs, a sinister-looking moth (actually the death's-head hawkmoth) is a serial killer's signature.
The moth that Evelyn holds at the end is an old lady; and, given the bondage theme, it seems appropriate the true lover's knot moth should appear.
"If you can attract people whose personalities fit with your values then you are in magnificent shape," says Dan Brooke, chief marketing and communications officer at Channel 4. "Provided your values are meaningful and differentiated, that moth to a flame effect exacerbates your advantage, because you are getting all the best people who want to be like that working for you," he says.
Yet like a moth to the flame Mr Santorum keeps returning to such topics, and all the controversy that comes with them.
It affects only the larvae of butterflies and moths, and it is put into maize to ward off a moth called the European corn borer.
The next stage is to add a receiver to tell the moth where to go.Moths may not be that bright, but Dr Hildebrand believes they can be manipulated in rather the same way as a donkey is by dangling a carrot in front of its head.
