Moths
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Interestingly, now in the Virtual Museum for Africa, we have maps for dragonflies and damselflies, butterflies and
moths
, reptiles, frogs, orchids, spiders, scorpions, and yes, we are even mapping mushrooms.
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Insects of the Lepidoptera order— butterflies and moths— keep their proboscises rolled up tightly beneath their heads when they’re not feeding and unfurl them when they come across some sweet nectar.
The juvenile stages of some insects, for example, have completely different kinds of mouths than their adult versions, like caterpillars, which use chewing mouthparts to devour leaves before metamorphosing into butterflies and
moths
with siphoning mouthparts.
Now, this was an inspired choice by Adolf Butenandt and his team, because he needed half a million
moths
to get enough material to do the chemical analysis.
Now
moths
don't learn a lot about what is good to smell, but humans do, and up to the age of about four, any smell, no matter how rancid, is simply interesting.
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