Moths vs Butterflies

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Wherein we explore the order Lepidoptera!

The Brain Scoop is written and hosted by:
Emily Graslie

Created By:
Hank Green

Directed, Edited, Animated, and Scored by:
Michael Aranda

Filmed on Location and Supported by:
The Field Museum in Chicago, IL

Translated captions provided by John-Alan Pascoe, Enrico Cioni, Anne-Sophie Caron, Barbara Velázquez, Katerina Idrik, Camillo Ferreira, TBSkyen, Eva Topitz, Evan Liao, and Seth Bergenholtz. Thanks, guys!

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"Or luna moths which are etherial and gorgeous & can be used to fortify light armor potions in Skyrim" I'm in love :)

jensentobey

Highly educational with a hint of Skyrim ... you win the internet, Emily.

earthtouchtv

It's interesting how English has all these different words for things in biology... and science in general, I think. In Finnish there's no special word for "chrysalis". All the cocoon-like things insects create are just called "kotelo". Which also means just "case", like a box for keeping stuff in or something.

Also moths are just called "night butterflies" ("yöperhoset", butterflies being "perhoset"; the singular is "perhonen" because the -nen words in Finnish are weird). I have no idea what you'd call diurnal moths in Finnish. o_o Okay now I need to look it up.

Okay, I totally forgot that there's another word for moths: "yökkönen". That comes the word for night too ("yö"; I'd explain how to pronounce it but neither of those vowels exist in English. It's [yø] in IPA. If you know German then it's basically like "üö" we just spell ü with a y). The name means something like... idk, little night creature? And apparently yökkönen is used scientifically to refer to Noctuidae specifically. So it's not all moths. Though I'm pretty sure people use it to mean just moths too. Then there's "mittarit" ("measurers") (Geometridae), kiitäjät "dashers" (Sphingidae) and karvakehrääjät ("hairspinners") (Lasiocampidae) for other specific names. Which are indeed specific, you wouldn't just use those for all moths.

I guess "yöperhonen" really doesn't mean "moth" but just "nocturnal butterfly OR moth". And now I know! (Sorry, all that probably didn't interest anyone but me.)

syystomu

Thanks! This was fun to learn! While I still have terrible fear of insects, this video gave me some motivation to start studying about those cool and colorful fliers we have.

jiritsu

had to come and say my 4yr old love this! this is her favorite video so far ( we dont show her the dissection videos, we are weird but not crazy). she will be playing with her dolls and take ones arms up to say, " butterflies... ", then down to say, " moths. " so proud! :)

artsiemama

The skyrim Lmao "and the best way to remember this is butterflies make chrysalises and moths make cacoons"

shinjishi

I love how this show doesn't pretend to be "accessible" like SciShow and gets straight into the nerdiness and memes with no unnecessary foreplay.

TyTheRegularMan

The actual easiest way to remember it is that the pairs are matching: butterflies and chrysalides are long words with multiple vowels, moths and cocoons are short words with just o's.

peccantis

I've never been a huge animal fan so these videos aren't always super interesting to me. However, I love watching your videos because your energy is so fantastic. Watching you talk about this stuff makes me want to smile because your energy is so contagious. <3

lifebehindthesmiles

I work at a day care and one of my three year olds proudly told everyone in her class that the flying creature they were watching was a moth, not a butterfly and she even told them how she knew. I was pretty impressed.

saragrady

You didnt mention the rosy maple moth! you guys google it for your daily aww moment. it's adorable.

gianasantarossa

I LOVE these kinds of episodes (like horns vs antlers) because you break down things so simply that I can actually walk away saying that I learned something. Not that I don't learn from your other videos this is just less complex.

clover

I'm so happy that y'all made this video. It's something I've always wondered but never Googled. Now I can tell everyone they"re wrong when saying that butterflies emerge from cocoons.

stevenvasquez

I was just thinking that myself. I know it's updated on a regular basis, but each time I watch it I feel that sense of relief like I had been affectionately missing it for weeks.

NinjaFalllow