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They also move nutrients down the food chain. The larvae and the mosquitoes they produce feed lots of birds and other insects.
Up the foodchain, sorry for beeing a pedant.
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>Moths have mouthparts, butterflies generally don't I'm not sure where you get that information. Butterflies also feed on nectar from plants, so they do have mouthparts. On another note, some butterflies (and maybe moths) are cannibals [1] and feed on their own caterpillars: "Some butterflies don’t only look like horror movie stars, but are horrors in themselves. Milkweed butterflies (Danainae) — the same subfamily t…
I was talking about nectar robbing by moths, butterflies don't do it. And butterflies only have a tube with a tongue, they don't have opposing jaws or a typical mouthpart. Moths are some of many nectar robbers who will cut a hole or slit in the bottom part of the nectar bearing parts of plants and drink that directly rather than playing by 'the rules' and going down the flower past the reproductive organs. Thus getti…
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> Not that colony collapse doesn’t worry me, it does. But if I was being baselessly told to fear agriculture production issues, I am super mad. Maybe before getting emotionally attached to a position (again) you should understand what’s going on.
Just be an expert in everything. See easy. And experts never get mislead either, just repeat all research yourself, double plus good. /S
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Indeed, in many languages, even unrelated ones like Finnish, Greek, and Vietnamese, the word for moth is "night butterfly".
In german: Nachtfalter ie nightfolder
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I was talking about nectar robbing by moths, butterflies don't do it. And butterflies only have a tube with a tongue, they don't have opposing jaws or a typical mouthpart. Moths are some of many nectar robbers who will cut a hole or slit in the bottom part of the nectar bearing parts of plants and drink that directly rather than playing by 'the rules' and going down the flower past the reproductive organs. Thus getti…
I wonder what the advantage is in "nectar robbing". Is carrying the pollen a significant additional effort to an insect?
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I feel like it’s the opposite, the amount of energy packed into a single drop of honey makes it very efficient.
The energy taken by the bees and turned into honey is a cost from the flower’s point of view. I think you are looking at the efficiency of honey as a food, while the previous poster is looking at the efficiency of bees as pollinators?
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As a gardener I have noticed that most types of insects tend to visit as many flowers as possible. None seem to show a vast preference. I know that's not what the data shows but it's my experience.
Bees prefer native flowers. Zero snark intended.
Are spiders vegetarian? Yep. Some are. Do European butterflies migrate like the monarch butterflies do?, yep. Do mosquitoes eat diseases? yep. Do they eat other mosquitoes? Double yep...
Ad infinitum
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>Moths have mouthparts, butterflies generally don't I'm not sure where you get that information. Butterflies also feed on nectar from plants, so they do have mouthparts. On another note, some butterflies (and maybe moths) are cannibals [1] and feed on their own caterpillars: "Some butterflies don’t only look like horror movie stars, but are horrors in themselves. Milkweed butterflies (Danainae) — the same subfamily t…
I was talking about nectar robbing by moths, butterflies don't do it. And butterflies only have a tube with a tongue, they don't have opposing jaws or a typical mouthpart. Moths are some of many nectar robbers who will cut a hole or slit in the bottom part of the nectar bearing parts of plants and drink that directly rather than playing by 'the rules' and going down the flower past the reproductive organs. Thus getti…
As another curiosity, I believe the death’s head hawk moth (as ‘made famous’ by The Silence of the Lambs) can disguise itself as a bee via scent and just take honey from a beehive.