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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There is very little difference between moths and butterflies. It is a just linguistic difference.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Could you elaborate? I’m actually curious.

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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    • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Moths have cocoons and butterflies have chrysalises.

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    • Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Newfoundland reference 😱

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• galaxia@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I grew up loving that worm, and now I love moths and creepy crawlies. 😁

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