Butterfiles Archives - Our Funny Little Site Tue, 02 Apr 2019 11:36:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Did You Know That Butterflies Taste with Their Feet? https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/did-you-know-that-butterflies-taste-with-their-feet/ Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:35:17 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=4399 Have you ever wondered how do butterflies know if the plant they have landed on is toxic or not? Well, they use their feet to taste. Yes, seriously, butterflies’ taste receptors are located on their legs. They are in fact similar to the taste buds we have in our mouths, except theirs are 200 times […]

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]]> Have you ever wondered how do butterflies know if the plant they have landed on is toxic or not? Well, they use their feet to taste.

Yes, seriously, butterflies’ taste receptors are located on their legs. They are in fact similar to the taste buds we have in our mouths, except theirs are 200 times stronger (according to Encyclopedia Britannica).

Butterflies use these receptors primarily to test if potential egg-laying sites contain toxins or other harmful detriments.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvkVBDzFGAq/

Butterflies’ babies, caterpillars, eat constantly. They feed on the leaves that are closest to them so it’s important for butterflies to choose the right plants for laying eggs.

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]]> Watch Amazonian Butterflies Drink Turtle’s Tears https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/watch-amazonian-butterflies-drink-turtles-tears/ Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:19:22 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=2052 Butterflies are among the most beautiful and strange creatures on the planet. Today you will see them doing something completely crazy. The host of a popular YouTube channel The Jungle Diaries, Phil Torres, recently posted a video from the Peruvian Amazon in which he shows eight butterflies species drinking turtles salty tears. This phenomenon may look […]

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]]> Butterflies are among the most beautiful and strange creatures on the planet. Today you will see them doing something completely crazy.

The host of a popular YouTube channel The Jungle Diaries, Phil Torres, recently posted a video from the Peruvian Amazon in which he shows eight butterflies species drinking turtles salty tears. This phenomenon may look odd, but it’s not uncommon as the butterflies need the sodium and it is available in turtle tears.

See the video below make sure to follow Torres’ adventures on YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.

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]]> ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Butterfiles Archives - Our Funny Little Site Tue, 02 Apr 2019 11:36:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Did You Know That Butterflies Taste with Their Feet? https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/did-you-know-that-butterflies-taste-with-their-feet/ Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:35:17 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=4399 Have you ever wondered how do butterflies know if the plant they have landed on is toxic or not? Well, they use their feet to taste. Yes, seriously, butterflies’ taste receptors are located on their legs. They are in fact similar to the taste buds we have in our mouths, except theirs are 200 times […]

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]]> Have you ever wondered how do butterflies know if the plant they have landed on is toxic or not? Well, they use their feet to taste.

Yes, seriously, butterflies’ taste receptors are located on their legs. They are in fact similar to the taste buds we have in our mouths, except theirs are 200 times stronger (according to Encyclopedia Britannica).

Butterflies use these receptors primarily to test if potential egg-laying sites contain toxins or other harmful detriments.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvkVBDzFGAq/

Butterflies’ babies, caterpillars, eat constantly. They feed on the leaves that are closest to them so it’s important for butterflies to choose the right plants for laying eggs.

The post Did You Know That Butterflies Taste with Their Feet? appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.

]]> Watch Amazonian Butterflies Drink Turtle’s Tears https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/watch-amazonian-butterflies-drink-turtles-tears/ Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:19:22 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=2052 Butterflies are among the most beautiful and strange creatures on the planet. Today you will see them doing something completely crazy. The host of a popular YouTube channel The Jungle Diaries, Phil Torres, recently posted a video from the Peruvian Amazon in which he shows eight butterflies species drinking turtles salty tears. This phenomenon may look […]

The post Watch Amazonian Butterflies Drink Turtle’s Tears appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.

]]> Butterflies are among the most beautiful and strange creatures on the planet. Today you will see them doing something completely crazy.

The host of a popular YouTube channel The Jungle Diaries, Phil Torres, recently posted a video from the Peruvian Amazon in which he shows eight butterflies species drinking turtles salty tears. This phenomenon may look odd, but it’s not uncommon as the butterflies need the sodium and it is available in turtle tears.

See the video below make sure to follow Torres’ adventures on YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.

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