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    5 days ago

    There is very little difference between moths and butterflies. It is a just linguistic difference.

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        2 days ago

        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 loved 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