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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Moths are just as valid as butterflies!

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

As a moth aficionado, I'd say they're much more interesting. They evolved 90 million years before butterflies. There are also 9 times as many moth species as butterfly species. They're also more efficient at pollination than not only butterflies but bees. Go moths!

[–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They aren't related? Like it's convergent evolution shit? Or are they like moth and butterflies

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Butterflies are considered to have evolved from moths.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

In French they are all butterflies (papillons). There once was a distinction between butterflies and night butterflies (moths) but apparently it's now obsolete and they are just all lepidoptera.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That seems crazy. All butterflies come from moths, so it'd make more sense for Papillon to mean moth. It's like calling everything from the order Rodentia a Capybara, or everything in Eulipotyphla a hedgehog, both things within those orders in smaller numbers.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

Weirdly enough, language largelt evolves independently from other species.

[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do the micro moths include the ones in cupboards and closets?

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I hate those fuckers. They infested the family house and we can't seem to get rid of them.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

You have to check everything. We found them nesting in the fucking wallpaper.

[–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Ahh... Nice read. Thank you

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Makes sense to me, they're so furry they must carry pollen everywhere

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 27 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Ohh no, Shitty Moth gonna drop a long ass comment about his own experience of something then sneakily add in the end the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol, that guy isn't here is he?

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

He was. I remember seeing him shortly after all the Reddit drama went down

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 weeks ago

Shittymorph? The legend.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Moths are cooler.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Finally I can be nocturnal and not be judged for it

[–] GasMeterCrasher@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

Mothra has entered the chat

[–] RavuAlHemio@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Kafka would have been proud!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Shitty Moth Comix!
A perfect companion to my Teen Borscht Belt Comix collection, ay-ya-yay meshuga! Oy vey!

EDIT: what would that look like, exactly... Archie and Jughead wearing yarmulkes?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 4 weeks ago

The moonlight butterfly in DS1 is actually based off a type of moth; but "moonlight moth" doesn't sound nearly as fantasy.

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm more impressed they were able to zip all the way up with that zipper on the outside.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

IRL many sleeping bags have handles on both sides of the zipper.

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, I genuinely didn't know that. I haven't gone camping in decades, since I was literally a child.