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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 .