MOTHRA IN TEXAS
Giant moths turn up in towns hit by Claudette

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She was in the middle of a hurricane, but Nancy Pomykal was transfixed by the large black insect flying outside her Port O'Connor house.

"All during the storm it fluttered around," said Pomykal, as Hurricane Claudette's winds howled and the rain pounded her home like bullets. "It was so large, when it flew away in the air, it looked like a bird."

Meanwhile, on the shore of Matagorda Bay, birder Brush Freeman had ventured out onto a second-floor balcony as the calm core of Claudette passed overhead. He was hoping to see some rare seabirds, pushed inland by the hurricane, but instead saw hundreds of giant black moths that his neighbor mistook for bats.

"They were literally falling out of the skies," he said.

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