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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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.
Right. A butterfly never chewed a hole in my cashmere sweater.
Butterflies are free.
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.
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,
Moths themselves have no mouths and no digestive system. They die within a month or so of being hatched.
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!”
Luna Moth:
Polyphemus Moth:
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/
https://a-z-animals.com/articles/10-poisonous-butterflies/
10 Most Poisonous Butterflies: Nature’s Colorful Defenders
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