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Two Adonis blue butterflies feeding on a lump of feces. Coprophagous insects consume and redigest the feces of large animals. These feces contain substantial amounts of semidigested food, particularly in the case of herbivores, owing to the inefficiency of the large animals' digestive systems.
Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) are diverse in their strategies to gather liquid nutrients. Typically, mud-puddling behaviour takes place on wet soil. But even sweat on human skin may be attractive to butterflies such as species of Halpe. [5] [6] More unusual sources include blood and tears.
Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, and like other holometabolous insects they undergo complete metamorphosis. [2] Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis.
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Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. ... The Parnassinae, like the Papilioninae, ...
Papilio demodocus, the citrus swallowtail or Christmas butterfly, is a swallowtail butterfly which commonly occurs over the entirety of sub-Saharan Africa, ...
Like the different birth month flowers, birthstones, and favorite color, each type of butterfly has its own special symbolism associated with it. Butterflies come in almost all colors of the ...
That the avian predators avoided the queen butterfly implies that the queen does not serve as a model and the viceroy as a parasitic mimic; rather, they may be Müllerian co-mimics. [18] When avian predators were exposed to butterfly abdomina without the wings, many avian predators rejected the viceroy after a single peck.