Six Words: Target, Wick, Puzzle, Signal, Connection, Moth
We all know that moths and butterflies are both members of the Lepidoptera species, but when you bring that connection up in conversation at the dinner table, your companions may be puzzled about how you know that and about why they should care. One signal that you’ve missed the target in maintaining their interest may be when their heads hit the table because they’ve fallen asleep out of boredom.
Never-the-less, having raised the question of how to tell the difference between moths and butterflies, it would be wicked to not answer the question. One obvious difference is that butterflies have bulbs at the end of their antennas and moths do not.
Now a question that I’ll leave you with is this: why are there mothballs but no butterfly balls? Try discussing that at dinner!