Along with ponies and rainbows and princesses, there are
usually millions of brightly-coloured butterflies swarming around the flowery
fairytale garden of every cliché female child. But maybe they shouldn’t be a
part of this sickeningly girly idyll because they are actually quite gross.
More specifically, it is their eating habits that can be repulsive.
People are taught – and generally this is true – that
butterflies suck nectar from flowers for nourishment and drink from puddles
through a long proboscis for water. Butterflies do this, but flowers are not
their only source of food. Equally as commonly as they eat nectar, butterflies
also feet on rotting fruit, animal dung and decaying corpses. Look at them, all there in that picture, all eating that poo.
Flowers alone do not provide enough sodium for
butterflies, so they are attracting to salty things. If a butterfly has ever landed
on you, it is not because it likes you or because you look particularly like a
flower; actually, it is because the butterfly was attracted by the smell of
salt in your sweat and blood and it want to eat you. Maybe it did eat you, but
its proboscis was so tiny that you didn’t feel it sucking at you.
When they feed off anything that has been discarded and
is now rotting – including fruit, but more often poo and the flesh of dead
animals and people – they do something called ‘mud-puddling’. This is generally
a male behaviour, but not exclusively, and the nutrients collected from it are
sometimes offered to females as a gift preceding mating, so those slags are hardly
less disgusting. From mud-puddling, the butterflies take salts, sugars and
proteins.
Some species of butterfly are particularly attracted to
human urine for its sodium content. Others prefer dun or carrion (dead stuff)
for the ammonium ions found the. Fruits provide sugars as well as alcohol when
they are in a sufficient state of decay.
Although they are less popular, moths have similar
feeding patterns. Some species are even known for their habits of sucking blood
from sleeping animals and humans and others are sadistic enough to feed off
tears.
So … do you still think they’re sweet?
you may think this is wierd but they vscare the craput of me. Some think im crazy but not after reading this.... what do you think about the crazy lady now?????
ReplyDeleteI think I like them more now
ReplyDeleteYes...it is their nature and we eat worse...tongue, liver, guts of pigs etc
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DeleteI already knew this I just had to prove it to my mom
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DeleteAnd people wonder why im afraid of butterflies
ReplyDeleteAnd people wonder why im afraid of butterflies
ReplyDeleteAnd people wonder why im afraid of butterflies
ReplyDeleteWhen I die, I want to be eaten by butterflies.
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ReplyDeleteI just drank a small butterfly water,I didn't saw it first after i finish I found out that there is a butterfly in that glass.small in waiting what will happen to me. And very scared
ReplyDeleteI just drank a small butterfly water,I didn't saw it first after i finish I found out that there is a butterfly in that glass.small in waiting what will happen to me. And very scared
ReplyDeleteActually butterflies don't eat, they can only drink through "Proboscis", I read this here https://abutterflyrelease.com/blog/what-do-butterflies-eat/
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