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8 Differences Between Butterflies and Moths
Australian Butterfly Sanctuary ^ | July 11, 2019 | I wish I knew.

Posted on 07/03/2025 2:50:51 PM PDT by kawhill

What are the differences between butterflies and moths?

Although both of these fluttering insects come under the classification Lepidoptera, they possess many differences that classify them as a butterfly or a moth.

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KEYWORDS: butterflie; butterfly; lepidoptera; moth

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1 posted on 07/03/2025 2:50:51 PM PDT by kawhill
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To: kawhill

Moth eat clothes, butterflies don’t, right?


2 posted on 07/03/2025 2:53:32 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: kawhill

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.


3 posted on 07/03/2025 2:54:12 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Jim W N

Right. A butterfly never chewed a hole in my cashmere sweater.


4 posted on 07/03/2025 2:56:03 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: frank ballenger

Butterflies are free.


5 posted on 07/03/2025 2:56:13 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10-10-10-10)
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To: kawhill

1- moths are really gross....butterflies are just gross...


6 posted on 07/03/2025 2:57:24 PM PDT by God luvs America
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To: kawhill

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.


7 posted on 07/03/2025 2:57:55 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: kawhill

Butterflies are prettier and don’t crowd around your porch light at night.


8 posted on 07/03/2025 2:58:09 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: kawhill

A myth is a female moth.


9 posted on 07/03/2025 2:59:30 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: kawhill
really ?
10 posted on 07/03/2025 3:00:00 PM PDT by A strike (PDJT is absolutely continuing this US-Russia war)
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To: Jim W N

Job_4:19 how much less will He trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.
Job_13:28 I waste away like rotting wood, like a moth-eaten coat.
Psa_39:11 When You discipline us for our sins, You consume like a moth what is precious to us. Each of us is but a breath. Interlude
Isa_51:8 For the moth will devour them as it devours clothing. The worm will eat at them as it eats wool. But My righteousness will last forever. My salvation will continue from generation to generation.”
Hos_5:12 I will destroy Israel as a moth consumes wool. I will make Judah as weak as rotten wood.
Luk_12:33 “Sell your possessions and give to those in need. This will store up treasure for you in heaven! And the purses of heaven never get old or develop holes. Your treasure will be safe; no thief can steal it and no moth can destroy it.
Jas_5:2 Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags.

historical perspective on moths.

couldn’t find anything on butterflies,


11 posted on 07/03/2025 3:00:26 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Jim W N
Moths don't eat clothes. Their larva eat clothes.

Moths themselves have no mouths and no digestive system. They die within a month or so of being hatched.

12 posted on 07/03/2025 3:02:10 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: kawhill
Mothman:


13 posted on 07/03/2025 3:02:24 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: kawhill

Unlike moths, butterflies can fly backwards.


14 posted on 07/03/2025 3:02:35 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: kawhill

Australian Butterfly Sanctuary?

Butterflies have to bite you to kill you.

Moths merely have to fly by and scatter their wing dust on you.


15 posted on 07/03/2025 3:03:52 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I refuse to call the left "progressive" because I do not see slavery to the government as progress.)
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To: kawhill

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.


16 posted on 07/03/2025 3:04:31 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: kawhill

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!”


17 posted on 07/03/2025 3:06:16 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Cecropia Moth:

Luna Moth:

Polyphemus Moth:


18 posted on 07/03/2025 3:07:54 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Jim W N

As a rough, very general rule of thumb, moths are more often pests.
But there are some serious exceptions. One of my most hated insects is the “Loper” butterfly.

Pretty little things but they land on kale, cabbage and any similar cold crop and lay their eggs. Which turn into the hungry caterpillar kids story come to life.

I kill them on sight , tennis rackets are very effective.

https://vegento.russell.wisc.edu/pests/caterpillar-pests-of-cole-crops/


19 posted on 07/03/2025 3:08:09 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: kawhill

https://a-z-animals.com/articles/10-poisonous-butterflies/

10 Most Poisonous Butterflies: Nature’s Colorful Defenders


20 posted on 07/03/2025 3:09:01 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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