• Donkter@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Fun fact: moths don’t actually fly towards flames/lights. They have an instinct to orient their backs towards the light, presumably so that they can fly parallel to the moon at night which keeps them parallel to the ground.

    They don’t fly into lights intentionally, instead they keep re-orienting their back to it in a tighter and tighter spiral until they hit it.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      28 days ago

      Moths also arguably do not even have ‘hearts’, at least nothing like most mammal or reptile hearts.

      They aren’t multi-chambered.

      Its basically just an aorta with a bit of muscle wrapped around a section of it that rhythmically squeezes.