Meet some disgusting butterfly foods

Butterflies can be considered one of the most beautiful animals in nature. The impressive variety of sizes, colors and patterns on their wings makes them admired and even collected. Since not everything is perfect, the source of such color and liveliness can come from others not so noble.

1. Mud

Butterflies feed on beautiful flower nectar, but this is not their only source of food. Insects need nutrients that plants cannot provide, so they turn to other, less pleasant foods. After heavy rains, it is common to find several butterflies on the ground, over muddy puddles. Biologists believe that some species have this habit because they seek to meet their salt, nitrogen, protein, and amino acid needs.

2. Sweat and tears

Some zoos have butterfly gardens, screen-enclosed places where there are various types of butterflies living in a controlled environment. Here you can admire the beauty of animals in almost natural conditions and often they can rest on your arm, ensuring that special photo. Contrary to what it may seem, she doesn't do it because she wants to be her friend, but because of food interests.

Our sweat is very attractive to butterflies, and they can feed on it as well as our tears. So much so that in 2014, the moment was recorded when a butterfly drank the tears of an alligator, and on another occasion the insects took advantage of a turtle. Scientists believe that, in most cases, males who seek sweat or tears as food are males, as they feel an instinctive need for sodium so that the chances of successful fertilization are greater.

3. Urine

According to the "Butterfly Watcher Handbook, " a fact that collectors need to know is the great attractiveness of urine over these insects. Some species use their own secretions as a way to get more minerals. When they identify a place where another animal has urinated, they release a liquid that mixes with what was once expelled and absorb the pure mineral juice.

4. Blood and feces

Butterflies do not care about the origins of the food as long as there is a large amount of nutrients and minerals to aid their development. In this unpleasant list, blood and feces also enter, making it probably from the perspective of the animal humans a great feast. Good thing they have no way to attack us.

5. Decaying Meat

Completing the banquet, not even our remains are wasted by the beautiful animals. Of course, human flesh is a rare delicacy, considering that most of the dead are buried, but they don't have that much discretion, so they are satisfied with any dead animal.

The attraction is so great that researchers use shrimp heads and pieces of dead snakes as trap bait. An important detail is that meat cannot be dry, as insects have no teeth and can only lick their food.

This unpleasant menu, which butterflies are used to, shows that there are things we might not want to know. However, we cannot judge the poor animals, for all their color and energy comes from somewhere, whether disgusting or not.

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