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minus-squarestebo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 个月前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.
minus-squareMorgoon@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 个月前Also from cum “The bursa copulatrix receives, stores, and digests the spermatophore and other substances transferred by the male during copulation,”
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.
Also from cum
“The bursa copulatrix receives, stores, and digests the spermatophore and other substances transferred by the male during copulation,”