Back in the 90s, DJ Janik walked from his old downtown Denver apartment to get his Jeep Wrangler from the garage.

When he opened the car’s door, a miller moth started fluttering around. He wasn’t scared, but he knew driving with a moth flitting around would be dangerous.

He decided to kill it.

“I spanked my hand against the windshield,” he recalled, “and it shattered like a star.”

Janik is one of countless Denverites who have tangled with miller moths, the invertebrates that descend on Denver in a springtime swarm every year. We asked readers for their miller moth stories, and heard about everything from property damage to body horror – and also how the moths are a sweet treat for gorillas at the zoo.

But first, what happened to the moth that bugged Janik?

“I think I got him,” Janik

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