It ain't much, but it's a livin'

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• shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  how do they get the energy to lay new eggs? or grow into full sized moths?

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  • alteredEnvoy@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wikipedia says they eat enough as caterpillars and do not eat as adults

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    • IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can relate: Got really fat during my 20s and now I’m losing it all 👍

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They get energy from drinking the tears of Dark Souls players who have to fight it as a boss

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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s too bad they didn’t make the Moonlight Butterflies in the Crystal Caves hostile. Imagine the player tears after having to navigate narrow invisible walkways while dodging laser spam.

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  • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They eat nonstop and get fat as caterpillars, then spend most of their energy metamorphosing, and then the rest is for fucking and sucking

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    • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So someone who loses a lot of weight and gets really, really slutty as soon as they realize they can?

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  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was thinking the same thing. And you got an answer too. Cheers 🥂

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    • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      🥂

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• TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hooman: What is the purpose of life???

  Luna moth: You stupid mammal

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• kamiheku@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What letter is the black blob covering?

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ‘s’

    linuxhandbook.com/fsck-command/

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it’s a ‘q’.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or ‘ra’, it’s a petrol moth.

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  • TechieDamien@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No idea. Maybe it isn’t even a letter?

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    • Zoop@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I bet it’s a tiny hieroglyph of a penis.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I came, I fucked, I died.

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  • richard3030@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I came, I fucked, I came again, I died.

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• gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  fuck

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• MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Relatable

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is somewhat common for various bugs.

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
  Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’
  Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
  Man got to tell himself he understand."

  Moth just fucks

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Seriously cursed species we are.

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  if I were this fabulous I also wouldn’t waste precious time eating or shitting when i could be fucking.

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• HorreC@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Seeing them in person is surreal, they look so amazing up close.

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• brlemworld@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aren’t cicadas the same?

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  • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lots of metamorphic bugs do this. Even the ones that eat as adults often die that same year, after 3-20 years as a larva.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, these are moths.

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They get even cooler. When they’re larva they straight up vomit at predators.

  As defense mechanisms, larvae emit clicks as a warning and can also regurgitate intestinal contents, confirmed as having a deterrent effect on a variety of predators

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Could they add a mouth and digestive system through DNA editing?

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably not, they’re terrible at DNA editing.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They do have a mouth, but it’s like our appendix. It doesn’t do anything.

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    • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok. Still could use some crisper magic to give it some sustenance for a longer life

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• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So they just… f*ck off and die.

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