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There
are plenty of moths moving pollen from
flower to flower, including owlet moths and sphinx moth .Yucca plants require
the help of yucca moths to cross pollinate their flowers and each yucca plant
species has its own moth partner
Butterflies
and moths being to the same group Lepidoptera .More than 90% of known leps are
moths not butterflies .Scientist have described well over 135,000 species of
moths.
Some moths
don’t have mouths They emerge from their cocoons ready to make and content to
die soon afterwards .The best known mouthless moth is the luna moth that lives just a few
days as an adult.
Moths do not have noses Though moths smell
chemical cues with highly sensitive chemoreceptors on their antennae. Silk moth
males seem to have the strongest sense of smell of all
To avoid
being eaten, some moths have evolved to look like less palatable and the
praying mantis. Some moths even mimic bird droppings .