Moths flood in on the act at closing ceremony

Sydney: Bogongs, the big, fat hairy moths that have plagued the Sydney Olympics, flooded in on the act at the closing ceremony on Sunday.

One particularly large specimen landed on the bodice of a salmon pink evening gown worn by Australian soprano Yvonne Kenny just as she was hitting a high note in her rendition of the Olympic anthem.

Another perched itself at one point on the white shirt of Olympic chief Juan Antonio Samaranch.

The moths, passing through Sydney on their migration route to the Snowy Mountains, have been drawn to Olympic Park by the floodlights.



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