dust in moths wings

[OscartheGrouch]

"Targ" <vacuous at voidacious.net> wrote in message 
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>I remember being told as a child that if i got any of the dust from a moth 
>wings on my hands, i must wash throughly as it was very poisonous.   is 
>there any truth in that?   what kind of dust would it be anyway?  thanks.
>

It's not dust, it's very small scales. And poisonous? No.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/MICROSCALE1.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/micro3.htm&h=311&w=313&sz=33&hl=en&start=19&tbnid=6QNB3PEmw-mZEM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmoth%2Bscales%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG 



 
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