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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 6 months ago

It ain't much, but it's a livin'

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    how do they get the energy to lay new eggs? or grow into full sized moths?

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      Wikipedia says they eat enough as caterpillars and do not eat as adults

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        Can relate: Got really fat during my 20s and now I’m losing it all 👍

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          Lots of egg laying?

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            Just a regular Sunday night, laying eggs

            • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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              With the boys

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                We’re duck brothers we don’t lay eggs

        • sean@lemmy.wtf
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          im on the same exact journey, 31 now and 50 lbs down since may

          • IndiBrony@lemmy.world
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            Keep going 💪 You’re doing great.

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              hell yeah, feeling great! we’ll get there!

    • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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      They get energy from drinking the tears of Dark Souls players who have to fight it as a boss

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        It’s too bad they didn’t make the Moonlight Butterflies in the Crystal Caves hostile. Imagine the player tears after having to navigate narrow invisible walkways while dodging laser spam.

    • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      They eat nonstop and get fat as caterpillars, then spend most of their energy metamorphosing, and then the rest is for fucking and sucking

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        So someone who loses a lot of weight and gets really, really slutty as soon as they realize they can?

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      I was thinking the same thing. And you got an answer too. Cheers 🥂

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        🥂

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    Hooman: What is the purpose of life???

    Luna moth: You stupid mammal

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    What letter is the black blob covering?

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      ‘s’

      https://linuxhandbook.com/fsck-command/

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      I think it’s a ‘q’.

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
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        Or ‘ra’, it’s a petrol moth.

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          So say we all!

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      No idea. Maybe it isn’t even a letter?

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        I bet it’s a tiny hieroglyph of a penis.

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    fuck

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    Relatable

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    I came, I fucked, I died.

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      I came, I fucked, I came again, I died.

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    This is somewhat common for various bugs.

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    “Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
    Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’
    Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
    Man got to tell himself he understand."

    Moth just fucks

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      Seriously cursed species we are.

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    Seeing them in person is surreal, they look so amazing up close.

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    if I were this fabulous I also wouldn’t waste precious time eating or shitting when i could be fucking.

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    Aren’t cicadas the same?

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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      Lots of metamorphic bugs do this. Even the ones that eat as adults often die that same year, after 3-20 years as a larva.

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      No, these are moths.

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    Could they add a mouth and digestive system through DNA editing?

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      Probably not, they’re terrible at DNA editing.

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      They do have a mouth, but it’s like our appendix. It doesn’t do anything.

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        Ok. Still could use some crisper magic to give it some sustenance for a longer life

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          And then it takes over the world, Sam. Is that what you want to happen?

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            The slutterfly shall inherit the world.

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            There are billions of uglier things we could be subjects to

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    They get even cooler. When they’re larva they straight up vomit at predators.

    As defense mechanisms, larvae emit clicks as a warning and can also regurgitate intestinal contents, confirmed as having a deterrent effect on a variety of predators

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    So they just… f*ck off and die.

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