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Is It a Butterfly or a Moth?

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Is It a Butterfly or a Moth?
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 6 to 8
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   6.2

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    judgments, feather-like, skippers, straw-like, coils, mainly, moth, subtle, between, however, such, contrast, incorrect, neither, skipper, similar


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     Spanish: ¿Es una Mariposa o una Polilla?


Is It a Butterfly or a Moth?   

1     Can you tell the difference between a butterfly and a moth? At first glance, the two insects have identical body structures. They both have one pair of antennae, two pairs of wings, and three pairs of legs. Even their diet is the same. Both of them love drinking sugary liquids (such as nectar) through a long, straw-like feeding tube called a proboscis. When a butterfly or a moth is not eating, it coils up its proboscis and stores it neatly under its head.
 
2     However, there are some subtle differences between the two winged insect species.
 
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