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"gewg_" writes:

El Reg reports

Crafty museum curators in [London's Natural History Museum], outraged by lepidopterans gobbling their well-stuffed exhibits, have fought back with a sinister plan that has seen the noshing attackers tricked into orgies of male-on-male sex and hence unable to reproduce.

[...] the Museum staff--their hands tied by recent pesticide regulations designed to safeguard bees--are struggling to cope with a bit of a moth problem. The Museum being full of such tasty moth treats as stuffed animals, this is of course a serious matter.

But the institution's staff have come up with a master plan in which cunning traps are placed around the exhibits, well filled with female moth sex pheromones. Male moths, naturally enough, plunge into these and become coated in female sex chemicals.

This in turn leads other male moths to set upon the hapless victims in a male sex orgy. Actual female moths, it seems, are largely ignored and the lepidopterans thus fail to reproduce effectively--and the curators' cherished stuffings are left undisturbed.