• Gladaed@feddit.org
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      You should go and read the introduction of the moth and the butterfly article on Wikipedia. They did better than I could.

    • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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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      23 hours 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.