"If we can do so without endangering ourselves, yes." Though a resentful moth would be a pretty fucking exciting safety hazard on their own. "The first step is going to be for you to practice moving a machine around on this ship. Alaric, do we have sensors that detect the way moths talk to each other, that we could use for control? Or will we need to route commands through the grid?"
Re: literal manipulators - paging Alaric and the Cantata