It was not until this summer, when hordes of hungry cater pillars invaded many school campuses, plant nurseries and roadside trees, stripping branches bare of leaves and causing red itchy swellings on hundreds of people's skin, that moths finally made it into the news in a big way.
直到今夏，台灣許多校園、苗圃、行道樹，因為成千成萬的毛毛蟲呼朋引伴，啃光枝繁葉茂的大樹，引起好幾百人皮膚紅腫發癢，釀成一場場災難，飛蛾才頻頻上報。