Insects {Lepidoptera} can have two wing pairs covered with scales. Mouth is for sucking. They undergo metamorphosis through egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and adult. Lepidoptera include butterflies, moths, and skippers.
Lepidoptera {moth, insect} can hold wings flat while resting and fly at night. Moths have feathery feelers, live on land, have two antennae, and have two wing pairs raised by vertical muscle contraction pulling tergum down and lowered by longitudinal muscle contraction at 8 to 75 beats per second, under nerve control.
Large light-green American moths {luna moth} can have hind wings with tails and forewings with yellow crescents.
Moths {noctuid moth} can be pale and medium-size.
Noctuid-moth larvae {army worm} swarm and eat grass and grain.
Lepidoptera {butterfly} can hold wings straight up while resting and fly only by day. Butterflies have smooth feelers with end knobs, live on land, and have two antennae. Bicyclus-anyana adults have color if born in rainy season but are gray if born in dry season.
thorax upper-surface plate {tergum}.
Tropical butterflies {swallowtail} (Papilionidae) can have three leg pairs and tailed wings.
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