How do butterflies taste?

Brainyblonde

What do butterflies eat? With few exceptions, adult butterflies eat only various liquids to maintain their water balance and energy stores.Related Resources o Butterfly FAQs o Butterfly Home Most butterfly adults sip flower nectar, but other imbibe fluids from sap flowers on trees, rotting fruits, bird droppings, or animal dung. Many adult butterflies are found drinking fluids at wet sand or mud, especially along stream courses or the edges of dirt roads or trails. Some exceptions are the adults of longwing butterflies such as the Zebra are able to collect pollen from certain flowers with their proboscis and to break it down and absorb amino acids (proteins) which contribute to the ability to survive, mate and lay eggs for long periods (6 months or so). With their short proboscis (tongue) the adults of Harvester butterflies can actually pierce the bodies of woolly aphids and drink their fluids--this would be the only bugs that adult butterflies eat. The caterpillar of almost all butterflies eat various parts of plants. Each species may specialize of only a few kinds of plants or plant parts. The caterpillars of the Harvester butterfly and its relatives are exceptions in that they feed solely on aphids http://greennature.com/article1282.html Whether or not they taste, you will just have to ask one!!! LOL!!! Jun 12 04, 1:59 AM

jammiedodger

They taste with sensors in their feet. http://www.mic-d.com/gallery/darkfield/butterflyproboscis.html Jun 12 04, 1:59 AM

Miss G

A little bit bitter but not so bad roasted. LOL Jun 12 04, 3:57 AM

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