• stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Almost bit the onion. For those looking for the real answer: they eat and gather energy reserves when they’re a caterpillar. As a moth their only purpose is indeed reproduction so they use up those reserves.

    • Morgoon@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Also from cum

      “The bursa copulatrix receives, stores, and digests the spermatophore and other substances transferred by the male during copulation,”