#i just assumed moth bc its brown

[millipedefan]

Hellow

hi!!! <33 lovely moth? you have there :)

fun facts time:

just like butterflies they have a proboscis! which is kinda like a straw? which is a feeding & sucking mouthpart, so yknow it sucks & feeds :) they use it to get nectar out of flowers mostly. that means that they also pollinate some flowers :))

just like with butterflies, some species do not eat as adults, this is bc they only live for like a week after becoming adults & they have food stores left over from being a caterpillar & eating nonstop almost

a moth i currently love a lot is the white witch moth, one of the largest moth species in the world, and i know they arent as pretty as atlas moths, but theyre still gorgeous to me <3 we dont know much about them at all, we dont even know what they look like before reaching adulthood.

also! there are moths whose caterpillars live under water :) a lot of them are only partially aquatic, they might spend a lot of time above water too, or bring air down with them. my favourite aquatic moths are snout moths, some of which are delightfully stupid looking :)))

there's also a recently discovered parasitic wasp that lays eggs inside caterpillars, that feed on water plants. it even dives under :) its called the microgaster godzilla