Why do butterflies taste with their feet?
When you think about it, it’s pretty handy. When a butterfly lands on a plant, it can instantly “taste” whether it is the kind of plant it is looking for! Aren’t you glad YOU don’t taste with your feet? I would get pretty tired of the taste of socks. Q: What are butterflies’enemies? A: Butterflies have many enemies. Insects may eat their eggs, birds like to eat the caterpillars and lots of things like to eat the adults. A butterfly may land on a flower only to find itself in the clutches of a hungry crab spider or being attacked by a praying mantis or damsel bug. Some butterflies, like the monarch, taste awful and advertise this fact by being bright orange. They taste awful because as caterpillars they feed on milkweeds, which contain a special chemical. Q: Why do butterflies fly? Why don’t they walk? A: Well, since butterflies feed on nectar from flowers, compare how hard it would be for the butterfly to walk from one plant to another versus flying. It would have to walk all the way d
