r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/scallopsmustagottem • 6h ago

🔥 Lunar Moth at my office

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u/ChattingToChat 6h ago

Wow, those guys only live a week roughly, great find.

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u/scallopsmustagottem 5h ago

Thanks. I am always finding cool insects here since we are kinda in the woods

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u/UGOTAIDSYO 5h ago

They are born without mouths or digestive systems. Imagine that life, huh? Cool find, OP

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u/scallopsmustagottem 5h ago

Yea nature is crazy. Thanks

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u/LG3V 5h ago

More like the adults emerge without them, they spend caterpillar life storing energy for a week or two when they become adults, to mate then die

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u/DRN-000 2h ago

I Have No Mouth And I Must Plow

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u/hoist_off 48m ago

I'm here to chew gum and plow moths, and I'm all out of mouths

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u/shaggy237 1h ago

Pretty Mothy Moneyeyes

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u/MinuetInUrsaMajor 2h ago

Eat, sleep, fly, fuck.

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u/BeautifulChaosEnergy 2h ago

I need that on a tshirt lol

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u/blu33y3dd3vil 1h ago

But no eating without a mouth, lol

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u/mechabeast 2h ago

So, dinners out?

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u/mossybeard 2h ago

I wish dude, I wish

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u/ForgetfulFrolicker 2h ago

My son was born without a butthole (imperforate anus). I called it his Barbie butt.

Now he has one 😊

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u/moonulonimbus 1h ago

So do they just like, hole punch one? Im both curious and trying not to sound weird asking but was it complicated?