"In classic painting, butterflies were symbols of life, joy, and hope. Moths-of the same order as butterflies, Lepidoptera- were in all cases symbols of despair, deterioration, destruction, and death. Entomologists estimate the world is home to thirty thousand species of butterflies, and four times that many moths." "And as he wondered what might be coming next, spectral moths fluttered up the length of his spine"- Dean Koontz By the Light of the Moon page 167