"Or luna moths which are etherial and gorgeous & can be used to fortify light armor potions in Skyrim" I'm in love :)

Highly educational with a hint of Skyrim ... you win the internet, Emily.

I lost it at the Skyrim comment.

The skyrim reference!!!!!!!! Lmao "and the best way to remember this is butterflies make chrysalises and moths make cacoons"

|.| Butterflies -.- Moths

It's interesting how English has all these different words for things in biology... and science in general, I think. In Finnish there's no special word for "chrysalis". All the cocoon-like things insects create are just called "kotelo". Which also means just "case", like a box for keeping stuff in or something. Also moths are just called "night butterflies" ("yöperhoset", butterflies being "perhoset"; the singular is "perhonen" because the -nen words in Finnish are weird). I have no idea what you'd call diurnal moths in Finnish. o_o Okay now I need to look it up. Okay, I totally forgot that there's another word for moths: "yökkönen". That comes the word for night too ("yö"; I'd explain how to pronounce it but neither of those vowels exist in English. It's [yø] in IPA. If you know German then it's basically like "üö" we just spell ü with a y). The name means something like... idk, little night creature? And apparently yökkönen is used scientifically to refer to Noctuidae specifically. So it's not all moths. Though I'm pretty sure people use it to mean just moths too. Then there's "mittarit" ("measurers") (Geometridae), kiitäjät "dashers" (Sphingidae) and karvakehrääjät ("hairspinners") (Lasiocampidae) for other specific names. Which are indeed specific, you wouldn't just use those for all moths. I guess "yöperhonen" really doesn't mean "moth" but just "nocturnal butterfly OR moth". And now I know! (Sorry, all that probably didn't interest anyone but me.)

You didnt mention the rosy maple moth! you guys google it for your daily aww moment. it's adorable.

had to come and say my 4yr old love this! this is her favorite video so far ( we dont show her the dissection videos, we are weird but not crazy). she will be playing with her dolls and take ones arms up to say , " butterflies... ", then down to say , " moths. " so proud! :)

I love how this show doesn't pretend to be "accessible" like SciShow and gets straight into the nerdiness and memes with no unnecessary foreplay.

I was putting all my attention to Emily's face that I got startled when I noticed the racoon.

Excellent Skyrim reference!! Represent!

So this proves, ONCE AND FOR ALL, that Mothra is a MOTH! If you've ever argued about Godzilla movies, this will make sense to you...

I work at a day care and one of my three year olds proudly told everyone in her class that the flying creature they were watching was a moth, not a butterfly and she even told them how she knew. I was pretty impressed.

As someone who is scared of both butterflies and moths, this whole episode was terrifying.

I've never been a huge animal fan so these videos aren't always super interesting to me. However, I love watching your videos because your energy is so fantastic. Watching you talk about this stuff makes me want to smile because your energy is so contagious.

I had a hard day, but this genuinely made me feel much better. Thank you Brain Scoop People!

Man, I sure hope the next version of Mothra gets acidic spit. She's been missing out.

that skyrim reference my heart cannot take the beauty of this women I tell you

i am a simple man you mention skyrim i leave a thumbs up!

I LOVE these kinds of episodes (like horns vs antlers) because you break down things so simply that I can actually walk away saying that I learned something. Not that I don't learn from your other videos this is just less complex.

Great show. The writing on this one was totally fabulicious. Grats to both Emily and Michael. :)

I'm so happy that y'all made this video. It's something I've always wondered but never Googled. Now I can tell everyone they"re wrong when saying that butterflies emerge from cocoons.

im here to see the skyrim comments

I'm terrified of moths/butterflies and this video made me feel better

My daughter keeps doing the "butterfly, moths... butterfly, moths..." One of you best videos yet.

Seeing a new video of thebrainscoop always makes me happy and leaves a warm fuzzy feeling.

As soon as you said luna moths, as sooon as you said it, I thought of Skyrim alchemy. Thank you so much for acknowledging that little aspect of those gorgeous creatures.

I was just thinking that myself. I know it's updated on a regular basis, but each time I watch it I feel that sense of relief like I had been affectionately missing it for weeks.

This video has the highest density of humor and information I have ever seen. I loled, literally.

The actual easiest way to remember it is that the pairs are matching: butterflies and chrysalides are long words with multiple vowels, moths and cocoons are short words with just o's.

I'm beginning to realize the thing I look forward to the most (in real life and internet life) is new episodes of The Brainscoop. Never a dull video.

The new Brain Scoop intro is so pretty, I always pause the video and wait for the HD to buffer before I let it play. :)

When the Luna Moth part came around, I was convinced that my mind could alter the content of a KZfaq video to best reflect my nerdthoughts for a few seconds. Then I remembered I didn't take a psionic class.

Emily I look forward to your shows with just as much anticipation as any other show on TV! YOU ROCK!

Michael should definitely make an 80s aerobics style song using your "butterflies...moths" instructor voice. This video was incredibly well scripted, I couldn't stop laughing!

YAY I FOUND THE EPISODE WITH THE SKYRIM REFERENCE! Your so awesome Emily.

I love how Soon is just chillin on his own little shelf the whole video.

I thought I knew a lot about moths and butterflies until I watched this! I didn't know that caterpillar was the correct term for both types of larvae. Thank you for the neat facts!!

Stefan Chin did an amazing job playing Stefan Chin in this episode. Would watch again.

Thank you for doing this episode Emily! It was great!

The Skyrim reference.. oh god, my sides....

I always liked moths.

this is one of my favorite episodes yet! great job :)

Nice transition from steaming disemboweled organs to pretty butterflies in just two videos! :D

Of the many great things about this my favorite is that the captions show up at the time that I actually want to see a thing written down, not just all the time seemingly for the hell of it (drives me crazy about scishow for example). But I also like how it seems you are settling in well and are choosing the right scale of topic for the videos with your new enormous possibilities.

came for the info stayed for the personality! i love her

this was my favourite episode yet!

Man, I love her sense of humour. I hope we go over beetles, parasitoids and treehoppers!

It's great to see someone come up with an idea though as you said.

Moths are just so much more epic. Butterfly says "I'm going to cover my body in spit during puberty and break open my dried spit to become a fragile weak thing with color, so nice." Moth says "I'm going to make an epic fort out of all the things and spit acid at it to escape and emerge as a hardocore buff flying machine, with the sacrifice of m color!"

That whole luna moth Skyrim thing really made my day. Extremely. Thank you so much.

One of my favorite episodes so far. Just the right balance between facts and humor. :)

I love the writing for this show.

Great episode, I enjoyed this format.

I love this channel! Cant get enough!

You never disappoint. Love this.

Just awesome! Now I clearly know the difference. This was the first I've watched. Looking forward to more :)

Isn't it just awesome when you're discussing the differences of moths and butterflies and -Badabing Badabang! Emily has the answer! Thanks!

"Nobody suspects the butterfly..." -Bart Simpson -

Oh my gosh Emily you are the best keep all of the wonder fullness coming

This is just such a great show! Thank you.

I love the Brain Scoop.Emily is ?AWESOME.

This is a great episode!

I like your videos before I even see them as I know I will enjoy. You never disappoint.

You have such a brilliant thing going. Thank you! Much love!

I work for a nature education center, and I'm pretty sure I need to integrate the moth/butterfly arm movements somewhere into our kids programs.

I love this show so much. So much. Like i wish all my teachers were like Emily

Moths... butterflies... I am terrified of them both, all because of that stupid Spongebob episode that always gives me terrifying nightmares

Thanks! This was fun to learn! While I still have terrible fear of insects, this video gave me some motivation to start studying about those cool and colorful fliers we have.

Another easy to tell a butterfly from a moth is that moths are hell-bent on attacking your head.

As a person deathly terrified of butterflies and moths, I'ld say this has been the scariest of all brain scoop episodes (blood doesn't scare me)

I just found out were taking a field trip to the field museum for chem! I'm so excited! :D

My sister is terrified of moths. So one Christmas I got a dead moth, put in into a box from a jeweler and put it under the tree.. her face when she opened it was priceless.

"Butterflies form chrysalises and moths form cocoons." The Monarch ain't gonna be happy to hear that.

This video could do with an update as we've since found out that they don't actually turn into a goo. Some species have their wings inside of them as caterpillars. Theres a great video of CRISPR being used to be able to see inside a butterfly's chrysalis

I lost it at the Skyrim reference. Another awesome episode as always.

I refused to stop watching until you found the brains.

Ermagerd at my high school we're going to Chicago and one of the places we're visiting is the Field Museum. I'm so excited.

Great information and well done!

This was so great! Entertaining and hilarious! !

Excellent explanation, Em! A truly delightful video! :)

Oh, how I love this show!

This ep was a lot of fun. 😊👍

Serious LOL: "...and the easiest way to remember that is that butterflies form chrysalises and moths form cocoons". Priceless. New DFTBA store tshirt?

I laughed a lot in this episode! :') Plus, I learned a lot that I hadn't had a clue about before. I didn't even know the difference between cocoons and chrysalises :O Thanks for all the knowlage, guys!

When I first read the title I was hoping this video would have a butterfly and a Moth fighting to the death.

I hope you do more of this kind of video.

This was simply great. I can now go without calling a moth an ugly butterfly ! Butterflies~ Moths ~~ Butterflies ~ Moths ~~

This was an excellent episode. :D

Another great episode

Wow! You are just wonderful! :) Thank you for another great video!

Smart, informative, and fun. What a great channel.

This episode was very silly. Keep 'em coming!

i was looking for something like this, thank you for answering my burning question, subscribed.

The difference in wing position isn't always true, but it's a good general guideline.

bruh that racoon scared me but also that moth i seen on my ceiling that touched my cheek and heard my loud scream and thomps down the hallway literally 5 minutes ago yup i literally youtubed moths just to find out about this im still shaking like lmao

I can wait for more dissection videos!

You're great Ems. Love your videos.

awesome as always.

Yay! More comparisons please!