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I find it interesting how in english there are 2 different words for moths/butterflies :3. In my native language there aren't (though colloquially butterflies are referred to by the diminutive and moths by the base word.. at least in my experience)
Anywho, moths are cool, I like them :3
That'll be because all butterflies are just moths that fly in the daytime. Moths are substantially older and have substantially more variance.
As a side note, the 'buttetfly' in the famous kids book 'The very hungry caterpillar' is in fact a moth as it comes from a cocoon.
I mean, that's just plain wrong though.
To clarify, moths have been around way longer than butterflies, and butterflies evolved from moth‑like ancestors that switched to flying in the daytime. So in an evolutionary sense, butterflies are just a specialised branch of moths, even though we treat them as their own group today in taxonomy. Moths are the OG Lepidoptera.