Wednesday 11 July 2012

The Disgusting Truth About Butterflies




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?

57 comments:

  1. 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?????

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    1. I think you need to learn how to spell

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    3. I think they are beautiful. I have been holding one for almost 3 hours. Very peaceful and good sense of inner growth. I haven't thought a negative thought and have had nothing but good luck

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  2. I think I like them more now

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    1. Yes...it is their nature and we eat worse...tongue, liver, guts of pigs etc

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  3. I already knew this I just had to prove it to my mom

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  4. And people wonder why im afraid of butterflies

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    1. I Still Wonder ...Why are you afraid of them??

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  5. And people wonder why im afraid of butterflies

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  6. And people wonder why im afraid of butterflies

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  7. When I die, I want to be eaten by butterflies.

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  9. I 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

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  10. I 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

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  11. Actually 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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  12. Do gulf frittaliers catepillar seat anything but passion vine?

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  13. Do gulf frittaliers catepillar seat anything but passion vine?

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  14. Interesting, but where did you find your information?

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  15. Just wondering where is the source of information ?

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  16. J'ai prit une photo d'un papillon qui mange les excréments de mon chien..papillon jaune et noir.est ce normal?

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    1. Je suis en français deux et je suis content de comprendre ce que tu as dit

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  17. I also love poo

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    1. Geeze OMGGGGGGG Poos have bad smell and u LOVE ITTTTTTT Ugh Hate Poos they are stinky -_-

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  18. i have observed this phenomena first hand

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    1. The poop eating part is very true. I've seen it first hand.

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    2. Oof That is a very Stinky Phenomena XD

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  20. Good article, however I feel like it could use a few more pictures of poo

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  23. I still like butterflies... but after what I heard I think I should stay away a for a little bit of time. I still love them, and they are adorable and irestable to look at.

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  24. I was brought here by an anime and I had to know if it was true. I love low key educational anime

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    1. lmao i think i know the anime. saw it on tik tok. magical garden something. idk

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    2. I was watching hunter x hunter when I became curious about the truth on butterfly 🦋 facts lolz 😂

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  25. Oh nasty I never would of thought it

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  26. I could use that tip and say to mah mom

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  27. Savage Love Did SomeBody Did Somebody Break Your Heart Lalalala

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    1. the Poop Part Is Absolutely Gross And It broke my Heart when i saw it cuz i love butterflies

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  28. At first i thought that butterflies are so beautiful and nice but this article is defenitly gross and dissapointing

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  29. I actually learnt this from the blacklist

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  30. The love pee also I pee out my window "I live in nowhere no neighbors" and they are always our out the stained patch of grass I regularly piss on

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  31. Wtf is wrong with some of you

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  32. oh really i never new this facts i loved butterfly's and now i hate them

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