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[-] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

Moths are just as valid as butterflies!

[-] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Butterflies are considered to have evolved from moths.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Weirdly enough, language largelt evolves independently from other species.

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