I love getting fried on lamp

You should go and read the introduction of the moth and the butterfly article on Wikipedia. They did better than I could.

I didn't get much trying to read the wiki, but I did find a link to that other site 🤮 that goes into it from an entomology perspective, and I lived the response to the top comment

So by looking at that phylogenetic tree, I've come to understand that butterflies are just a subgroup of moths that we arbitrarily call butterflies?

Not being a biology nerd makes all that rather confusing lol, so the layman's summary-as-a-question really helped me

Butterfly wings stick out all showy and fluttery like they're trying to make a fashion statement, moth wings are respectably tucked back in a no-nonsense businesslike appearance.

Butterflies seems to float and soar, moths make a focused beeline for their target.

Source: I read a book about bugs by Brendan Wenzel.

Newfoundland reference 😱