Fact 120: What is the difference between a moth and a butterfly?

Fact 120: What is the difference between a moth and a butterfly?

The moths and butterflies are from the same scientific family, the Lepidoptera (family).

One of the differences is that moths form in a cocoon underground, and butterflies form in a chrysalis above ground and normally on trees and mainly on the leaves.

Moths are nocturnal where as butterflies are not nocturnal. 

Moths antennas are feathery where as butterflies antennas are long and thin with a ball shape at the end.

Moths are normally not colourful and butterflies are normally colourful.