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Vakal
May 11, 2008
I'm a moth man all the way.

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EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
I love moths OP

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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Vakal posted:

I'm a moth man all the way.



team worm. none and all of that dirty poo poo

Turrurrurrurrrrrrr
Dec 22, 2018

I hope this is "battle" enough for you, friend.

OP caught on camera:

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Turrurrurrurrrrrrr posted:

OP caught on camera:


post again

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things


Moths all day every day.
The emperor butterfly's catterpillar makes a strong contender though.

syntaxfunction
Oct 27, 2010
Both are wonderful but moths I relate to more.

Thora
Aug 21, 2006

Look on my Posts, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away
Sorry to hear about your impending death inside a light fixture :(

Vakal
May 11, 2008

Fat Albert in a can posted:

Sorry to hear about your impending death inside a light fixture :(

It is the way.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Grey Cat posted:

Moths all day every day.
The emperor butterfly's catterpillar makes a strong contender though.



Looks like it would see too ways that I failed out of college

nice obelisk idiot
May 18, 2023

funerary linens looking like dishrags
Based on personal associations, definitely team butterfly. The worst one is like an agricultural pest while moths have bagworms, ones that gets into bags of rice, etc. A nice sunny day in a meadow filled with butterflies is hard to beat imo.

GI Joe jobs
Jun 25, 2005

🎅🤜🤛👷
Butter flies can travel hundreds of miles (from mexico), moths have a much lower max range and are the inferior choice

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
I was a moth fan before any of you

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

Pretty butterflies that fly outdoors in the sunlight vs. dingy moths that eat your clothes in the dark and keep flying into electric lights until they die and you gotta clean up their carcasses?

Butterflies win.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

BigBadSteve posted:

Pretty butterflies that fly outdoors in the sunlight vs. dingy moths that eat your clothes in the dark and keep flying into electric lights until they die and you gotta clean up their carcasses?

Butterflies win.

there are also some dingy moths that fly in the sunlight

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

there are also some dingy moths that fly in the sunlight

Pardon me for being mothist.

god please help me
Jul 9, 2018
I LOVE GIVING MY TAX MONEY AND MY PERSONAL INCOME TO UKRAINE, SLAVA
post cat(erpillars).

bitterandtwisted
Sep 4, 2006




being covered in butterflies is beautiful. Being covered in moths is horrifying

vegetables
Mar 10, 2012

I’m on team butterfly because moths ate all my clothes

Noir89
Oct 9, 2012

I made a dumdum :(
Both are cool and good but moths wins with a slight edge. Just cool and goofy creatures that knows what they want(Death by burning from a light).

bitterandtwisted posted:

being covered in butterflies is beautiful. Being covered in moths is horrifying

Sounds fuzzy and nice actually. Butterflies have weird insect legs, as the OP illustrates.

Duct Tape Engineer
Feb 16, 2005

Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
hummingbird moths are pretty neat

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Moths ate your lovely clothes and gave you silk clothes to wear instead. winner: not those lovely butterflysq

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

not really considered it before op but on balance it's probably team moth

Unperson_47
Oct 14, 2007



I just want to point out that butterflies often land on piles of poo poo much like non-buttered flies.

LaughchainGoesBrr
Dec 13, 2023
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Shiney McShine
Oct 12, 2010

paperwork
Personal Earpiece
Many haven't heard of the amazing moth/butterfly mimic, the Triantiwontigongolope

and you won't because the link screwed up

Shiney McShine fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Dec 13, 2023

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
Pound for pound, butterflies are the deadliest fighters on the planet. Well, maybe there's something deadlier at the bottom of the ocean. We just don't know.:shrug:

god please help me
Jul 9, 2018
I LOVE GIVING MY TAX MONEY AND MY PERSONAL INCOME TO UKRAINE, SLAVA
Moths have an unfortunate love-hate relationship with fire, and I think they need help. :(

les enfants Terrific!
Dec 12, 2008
no such thing as hummingbird butterflies so I gotta hand it to moths on this one

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

In the same way that all vertebrate animals are fish, are all butterflies moths.

Being a moth is just the ground plan of being a Lepidopteran. One group of moths evolved antennae with clubbed tips, a (mostly) diurnal habit, and colorful wings. All butterflies are each others' closest relatives, but some moths are more closely related to butterflies than to other moths.

Fun fact, the ancestral groups of moths don't have a proboscis, they have jaws and chomp on pollen grains.

LawrenCaen
Aug 5, 2018
Butterflies are cool and all, but moths just got that mysterious vibe, you know? Plus, those fuzzy guys are low-key adorable.

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

venomoth learns Psychic at level 50, whereas butterfree can only learn the cooler but inferior Psybeam without use of a TM

On The Internet
Jun 27, 2023

Butterflies for me because I see more cool butterflies than cool moths. In fact, I don't think I've seen a cool moth in person, just dumb plain flutter bugs that die in the light fixture.

Snowy
Oct 6, 2010

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense



I’m undecided on team but here’s some pictures I took











Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
the significance of the moth is "change"

Konar
Dec 14, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
The Oatmeal rear end thread haha

naem
May 29, 2011

https://youtu.be/viTE77xIji0?si=yJXaO66yeCMhRBiO

neato burrito
Aug 25, 2002

bitch better have my chex mix

I spend time, money, and effort to plant milkweeds to support the local monarch butterfly population.

I wouldn't piss on a moth if it was on fire.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
I am a henchman of THE MIGHTY MONARCH, my allegiance is well known

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BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

Private Cumshoe posted:

the significance of the moth is "change"

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