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Comensilism
the symbiotic of a relationship of a moth and sloth is parasitism.
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parasitism
The moth will live in the fur of the sloth until it is time to lay it's eggs. Once a week the sloth goes to the bottom of the tree to lay it's waste. The moth then flies onto the waste and lays it's eggs. After all that the moth hitches a ride on the moth to live the rest of its life.
It is a moth, known colloquially as a "Yucca Moth"; scientifically "Prodoxidae". I very recently watched David Attenborough's 'Life on Earth' series where this symbiotic relationship was featured.
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cloths, moths, troths
The Yucca Moth lives in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and the West Indes. Yucca Moths have a symbiotic relationship with the Yucca plant, they can not exist without each other.
Three examples are Horse, Hippopotamus, Hyena, and there are many more.
In one particualr symbiotic relationship between mites and moths, mites of the genus Dicrocheles infest one "ear" of a moth. The moth's ear has three chambers, one of which is separated from the other two by the eardrum. The mites crawl into the moth's ear to lay their eggs, and in the process puncture the delicate eardrum, leaing the moth deaf in that ear. However, the mites are careful to colonize only one ear, because if they were to colonize both ears, the moth would be fully deaf and would be unable to hear approaching bats. The bat would eat the mites along with the moth.
A Yucca Moth caterpillar eats yucca plants. The adult moth lays her eggs on yucca plants.
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