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[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months 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.website 2 points 7 months ago

Also from cum

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

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