What do butterflies eat?
By Kangleicha
@Kangleicha (376)
India
May 21, 2009 7:17am CST
Do they drink sap of plants? Tiny Pollen grains? Leaves as they use to when they are caterpillars? Can they even eat? Some moths can't and survive from what they ate before they turned into a moth.
1 response
@Gemini_7000 (358)
• United States
21 May 09
Most butterflies do not eat anything, although they do drink liquids.
While butterflies do not eat in the traditional sense, they hav a proboscis, or a long tube in their mouth that acts like a straw for drinking.
You will often see butterflies perched on flowers, manure piles and fruit gathering different nutrients.
