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[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago (4 children)

So...ok, I'm missing something, then. How does the population get energy into the system, then? They don't photosynthesize, somebody has to eat SOMEthing at SOME point, or they won't have any energy at all for.....activities.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The caterpillar stage. Wikipedia says that's 6-7 weeks long.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

Become alive. Eat until I literally dissolve into goo. Become alive again. Fuck. Die.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Energy is from fat stores created while a caterpillar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_moth

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Oh that makes so much sense. I completely forgot about metamorphosis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

GOD dammit I almost forgot about 177013

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I was in the same boat, thank you for asking my first thought as well xD

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I hear they gather the energy during the caterpillar stage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I googled it. They have energy stored from when they were caterpillars.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

Man, caterpillar heaven looks pretty rad.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Think I killed one of these in Dark Souls

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Got a cool magic spear from it, too

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

PRAISE THE ~~SUN~~ LAMP!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What happens if we put them on IV? How long will they last? Will they go full Mr. Meeseeks? What are you doing over there, scientist?! We need answers!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

They will just mate nonstop

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

His name is Buck

and he's here to f*ck

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Mrw butterflies don't have toes

Quentin Tarantino depressed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Also see: mayfly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Has anyone bothered to ask if it has other interests?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A lot of insects live for years as their "larval" or nymph form and then come out into the more recognizable "adult form" just to mate and die. In a lot of ways their larval form is their actual form with their adult lifestage being just a flash in the pan to continue the species.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You sure "years" isn't a stretch? Non-rhetorical, I thought it was months at best.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Cicadas can stay underground for up to 17 years for example and dragon fly larva live 2 years just to come out of the water and grow wings for a few months.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Also getting combined with glowshrooms for invisibility potions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Pretty normal lifestyle for many lifeforms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Hey look it's me, not eating because depressed but also doing the very healthy thing of engaging in too many dating apps to find sex...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

same tbh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

pretty much all moths, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

if they don't eat, where do they get the energy to create offspring?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Good question, it all actually comes from the great predecessor moth who imbued its children with the energy needed to carry on for generations. This singular imbuement of life has carried them for the last four thousand years, and it is unknown when it will run out. When that time comes, the Luna moth will be no more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Almost bit the onion. For those looking for the real answer: they eat and gather energy reserves when they're a caterpillar. As a moth their only purpose is indeed reproduction so they use up those reserves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Also from cum

"The bursa copulatrix receives, stores, and digests the spermatophore and other substances transferred by the male during copulation,"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The larvae is where they do nothing but eat and grow and eat some more. Then they turn into flying sex organs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Stored from being a larvae i guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I wish the quality of this pic weren't so awful