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moths are beautiful deadly stalkers of the depths and anyone who slaps them thinking they're mosquitos owes them a public apology spoken out loud right now 
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Heather Papps posted:if these moth facts are incorrect i welcome a "well actually" i just really like moths a lot. a lover, not an expert. WELL ACTUALLY no you're already almost right, I'll use my insecta nerd knowledge here real quick to tell the entire world that moths, in fact are butterflies It's the common situation of a trivial term like butterfly, referring to the insect order of lepidoptera, to be used to distinguish between another rank in the taxonomy, which is not wrong but in fact not very useful to do - it's like asking what the difference is between a dog - Canis lupus familiaris in the family of dogs, canidae, in the order of Carnivora - and a cat (Felis catus in family Felidae, order Carnivora). Both share the same order, but down the ladder of taxonomy the differences start to be more apparent. Moths (Tineidae) are a family of the order of butterflies (lepidoptera), as much as a typical butterfly, say, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) from the family of Nymphalida, also order lepidoptera. Did you know that the order of lepidoptera consists out of a total of about 160 000 species in 130 families, which makes them the second biggest group of insects, right behind beetles? Almost 90% of those are classified as moths in their families, because the typical butterflies, as in, what we usually mean by those, are in the suborder of Glossata, which is only one out of four suborders and all the rest is what we usually call moths! This is double exciting when you keep in mind that the taxonomic class of insects is, by far, the biggest class of (multicellular) animals of all life as we know it, in terms of numbers. About 10% of total living animal biomass on our beautiful planet is made up of butterflies and 90% of those are moths!
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thank you for coming to gags biology Ted talk, I'm sorry if you feel asleep but I hope you dreamed of a colorful moth
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