Moth eat clothes, butterflies don’t, right?
Just saw a couple of guys on the sidewalk outside a bar arguing over that subject and then shoving and punching each other. It got ugly.
1- moths are really gross....butterflies are just gross...
I feel so sad. I killed two butterfly caterpillars that I thought were the ones that killed tomatoes, horn worms, today but when I asked my DH who studied bugs in college what they were he said that they were going to turn into swallowtails. I’m still sad.
Butterflies are prettier and don’t crowd around your porch light at night.
A myth is a female moth.
Unlike moths, butterflies can fly backwards.
Australian Butterfly Sanctuary?
Butterflies have to bite you to kill you.
Moths merely have to fly by and scatter their wing dust on you.
Moths often have feathery antennae. Butterflies are usually clubbed.
Butterflies can rest with their wings fold above their abdomen. Moths often fold them along their abdomen.
Moths are generally nocturnal. Butterflies generally aren’t.
…That’s about the extent of my knowledge over differences between them.
I spent one summer in western Kentucky and Tennessee. For once in my life I saw a bunch of different silk moths—Polyphemous, Cecropia, Io, Luna…—that used to be more common all over the Midwest. It was incredible to be able to catch ‘em, hold ‘em for a moment, then let ‘em go.
A pet peeve of mine in reaction videos to the LOTR movies — when Gandalf is held as a prisoner of Saruman at the top of the Orthanc Tower at Isengard, there is a scene at night when a moth flies to him and he captures it and whispers a message and then sends the moth to get help. I swear, EVERY time a reactor sees the moth fly through the night to Gandalf, they shout, “A butterfly!”
https://a-z-animals.com/articles/10-poisonous-butterflies/
10 Most Poisonous Butterflies: Nature’s Colorful Defenders
Butterflies are made of butter. You wouldn’t want to spread a moth on your cornbread, would you?
Why a butterfly vs. a flutterby?
You can catch both with an electric ‘flyswatter’.
The two main differences that I learned about when young is antenna shape and flight behavior. Butterfly antennae are straight with a knob at the end and they fly in a sort of dancing way; moth antennae look like feathers and they fly in a more direct or straight sort of way.
Fascinating! Thanks for posting this.
moths lay eggs in your ears, which migrate to your brain, and hatch, and work their way out your eyes and drop onto your clothes and eat the fabric whiel you sleep-
Isn’t the word for both Mariposa in Spanish?