I need help from people who know a lot about bugs.

Well it's not necessarily needing to know about bugs that is the point here but...

I had a read up on the poem, and when u take the moth, it is a risk taker, it is willing to live a short life in an instance as long as it is a happy life and go out with a bang...literally here with the light. Then u could have something like a cockroach that relates to the speaker who says he would rather live twice as long with half the happiness.
Cockroaches are ugly, unexciting creatures who are pretty darn indestructible, it takes a lot for them to die.

Then when u relate this to our reality, u have people like the mot, nachtvlinder in the world, and people like the cockroach. u could say that the cockroach people envy the moth's way of life. Fast paced, exciting and happy while their own existence is and ugly one, dragged out and uneventful. And yet u could say that the mot, nachtvlinder is immature and naive, and doesn't understand nor respect the meer conservative and civilised philosophy of the cockroach.

This is a reflection of life. Where beauty becomes envied as people seem to think that beauty equates to happiness. Beauty seems to equal an easy life with humans. And that if they are not beautiful, of do not have one small moment of excitement and the thrill of risk, then they will lead a long, boring sad life.

However one can't exist without the other. If u live solely door the way of the moth, u end up like him in the end of the poem. His life was ended door lack of control, too much risk. But then the speaker (the cockroach) also isn't better off, as he would constantly be brought down door his boring existence brought upon door not taking risks. Balance is needed to live a long but also happy life.

Sorry if that's not what you're after. It's 2am in the morning as I type this, forgive me xDD