What's the difference between butterflies and moths? Also, butterflies and moths on stamps from my collection. Part 2: Nicaragua, Grenada [catch THAT, Bruno Mars! :) ], Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Polska, CCCP, USA, R.O.C., Haute-Volta, Maldives, Rep. Rwandaise, Rep. Centrafricaine and Rep. Malgache (=Madagascar - no, Bubba, that ain't some kind of NASCAR)

"I wonder what that country name means..."

For y'all wonderers:

Cuba = Cuba Libre, free of capitalists, except some at Guantanamo Bay. Bay of Pigs is something else.

"Bay of Pigs (Spanish: Bahía de Cochinos) is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones on the southern coast of Cuba. "

"The English translation of cochinos as pigs is erroneous. In the Caribbean, it is a common name for the Orangeside triggerfish (Sufflamen verres), that inhabits coral reefs in Bahía de Cochinos, rather than swine (Sus scrofa)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_pigs

[MY NOTE: Now, if you want to catch some of that triggerfish (there are some at Gitmo, too), who may have triggered terror, you shouldn't be...trigger-happy. 

Squeeze the intel(ligence/strategic information, in military sense) out of them. 

You know why?

Coz there's INTEL INSIDE!!!. :)

Don't just "Texas shoot'em".

Instead, try to surf near them, using a surfboard. Some call it...waterboard.

Hey! Whatever gets the job done.]

Polska = Poland.

CCCP = USSR.

R.O.C. = Republic of China = Taiwan (while mainland China is People's Republic of China).

Haute-Volta = Burkina Faso (not that you have a less foggy idea now).

Rep. Malgache = MADAGASCAR (no, Bubba, that ain't some kind of NASCAR)

What's the difference between butterflies and moths?

"A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. 

Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth (about ten times the number of species of butterfly), with thousands of species yet to be described.^[1] 

Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are crepuscular and diurnal species."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moth

"Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), 

the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) 

and the moth-butterflies (superfamily Hedyloidea). 

[MY NOTE: moth-butterflies...very clever name, to distinguish between the two.

How stupid helpful is that? :) ]

All the many other families within the Lepidoptera are referred to as moths."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly

Guantanamo Bay - INTEL INSIDE!!!

:)

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