The Caterpillar Lab - Rosy maple moths overwinter as pupae in soil, moths fly in spring. Caterpillars active in summer, specializing on maples, with red maple preferred. Rosy maple moths are the
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Insects | Free Full-Text | Flight Muscle and Wing Mechanical Properties are Involved in Flightlessness of the Domestic Silkmoth, Bombyx mori
![this is the domesticated silk Moth, the main reason it's so white is that years of domestication has made it lose all of its pigment and ability to fly, still very cute this is the domesticated silk Moth, the main reason it's so white is that years of domestication has made it lose all of its pigment and ability to fly, still very cute](https://i.redd.it/q79tpzut8xd91.jpg)
this is the domesticated silk Moth, the main reason it's so white is that years of domestication has made it lose all of its pigment and ability to fly, still very cute
![Liv Boeree on X: "1/ Just found out that silk moths not only can't fly, but DON'T EVEN HAVE A MOUTH. Evolution really doesn't give a fuck as long as you get Liv Boeree on X: "1/ Just found out that silk moths not only can't fly, but DON'T EVEN HAVE A MOUTH. Evolution really doesn't give a fuck as long as you get](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJhjnIvWkAAfGo2.jpg:large)
Liv Boeree on X: "1/ Just found out that silk moths not only can't fly, but DON'T EVEN HAVE A MOUTH. Evolution really doesn't give a fuck as long as you get
![Captive breeding for thousands of years has impaired olfactory functions in silkmoths | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Captive breeding for thousands of years has impaired olfactory functions in silkmoths | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft](https://www.mpg.de/11600340/original-1684246001.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzQxLCJmaWxlX2V4dGVuc2lvbiI6ImpwZyIsIm9ial9pZCI6MTE2MDAzNDB9--36fef40dac80c1c60ca50a67e446e65dbbbb5480)
Captive breeding for thousands of years has impaired olfactory functions in silkmoths | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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