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Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Could you elaborate? I’m actually curious.

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You should go and read the introduction of the moth and the butterfly article on Wikipedia. They did better than I could.

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you, I shall do that.

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  • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I didn’t get much trying to read the wiki, but I did find a link to that other site 🤮 that goes into it from an entomology perspective, and I lived the response to the top comment

    So by looking at that phylogenetic tree, I’ve come to understand that butterflies are just a subgroup of moths that we arbitrarily call butterflies?

    Not being a biology nerd makes all that rather confusing lol, so the layman’s summary-as-a-question really helped me

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  • My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Butterfly wings stick out all showy and fluttery like they’re trying to make a fashion statement, moth wings are respectably tucked back in a no-nonsense businesslike appearance.

    Butterflies seems to float and soar, moths make a focused beeline for their target.

    Source: I read a book about bugs by Brendan Wenzel.

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Moths have cocoons and butterflies have chrysalises.

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  • Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Newfoundland reference 😱

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