Swallowtail Moth

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• Una@europe.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Aren’t moths butterflies on a night shift

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How dare you. Moths are much older, maybe 100 million years. There are 180000 species of moths vs about 16000 of butterflies. Moths are also incredibly efficient at pollinating, perhaps moreso than bees even. In short, moths rule.

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  • gobble_ghoul@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nope, butterflies are moths on day shift from an evolutionary perspective.

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• kronarbob@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  212895

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  • NichtElias@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I like how this implies that butterfly isn’t made up of “butter” and “fly”, but of “butt” and “erfly”

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    • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      which also implies the opposite genetic cross would be a buttmoth

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• esc27@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Moths tend to rest wings appart, butterflies with wings folded together.

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• latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wanted to say “motherfly,” then realisation struck.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  pick third option “essential pollinators”

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