Those two, butterfly and dragonfly, could hardly be more different - sort of humorous to put those two creatures in the same thought. Dragonfly is the most accurate predator in the whole animal kingdom.. making falcons and large cats look like beginners. Meanwhile the butterfly is unable to hunt at all, a truly powerful "changeling", starting life as a worm-like thing.

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bch 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

> starting life as a worm-like thing.

Not that different from a dragon fly[0], really. Most insects go through distinct metamorphosis[1]: egg -> larva -> pupae -> adult.

[0] https://media.australian.museum/media/dd/images/Some_image.w...

[1] https://www.amentsoc.org/insects/fact-files/life-cycles.html

	▲	bch 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		I might stand corrected - my own citation lists dragonflies as incomplete metamorphosis. I guess it’s true that they don’t pupate, but I thought the juvenile was still striking enough to mention as not necessarily obviously a dragonfly.

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11235813213455 7 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They're indeed super efficient, protein eater vs sugar eater, both are excellent at flying but butterflies are more spectacular, artistic, dragonflies more robotic

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ryanmcbride 7 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

sure but they're both cool bugs so they belong together imo

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popalchemist 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Yin and Yang arise together.