Many butterflies and moths (in particular) are experts of camouflage and deception.Some are sound producers although most emit ultrasonic sounds.Many are associated with particular plants, where they mate and lay eggs.Adults feed on nectar from flowers though some do not feed, and rely on the stored reserves accumulated from their larval stages.Others have weak fluttering, often erratic flight. Depending on the species they maybe capable of rapid flight, a loping flight or simply drift on air currents like a bird. During the day, roosting moths may undertake short flights to escape potential predators. When disturbed they fly away or drop to the ground.They are solitary or form large groups for mating, migration or roosting.In the house around areas such as the pantry or clothes cupboard.Rarely around ant hosts or insect prey (some carnivorous species).Six legs covered with overlapping scales.These include upright and pressed together above the body (butterfly, some moths), upright but not pressed together (some skipper butterflies), tent-like above body (moths) or horizontally spread so the hindwing and often the abdomen are visible (moths, some skippers, sun-basking butterflies). At rest, wings are held in a variety of ways.Wings have overlapping scales though in some species it is restricted to the veins.Hindwing generally wider and rounder than the more elongate and angular forewing.Have few cross-veins forming at most long rectangular or triangular cells.Both pairs membranous - often patterned or textured and cloudy.Some have non-functional mouthparts, or no mouthparts at all.A long feeding tube (probiscis) coiled under the head at rest.Rarely reduced, ocelli (tiny single lens eyes) when present small, next to top of eye rather than top of head.
Large, well separated and sometimes hairy.Butterflies and some day flying moths have club-like antennae with swollen tips.Body covered with scales and often hairy.
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