what does a butterfly eat?

Answer 1

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It eats nectar - sugar water, with its proboscis. Their favorite flowers are asters, cosmos, thistle, and buttonbush.

Answer 2

They will drink nectar from flowers or other sugar solutions such as that released by rotting fruit like bananas and oranges, or even just simple made up sugar solution - they seemed to use a combination of the three when I went to the London Butterfly house earlier this year.

Answer 3

Butterflies use their proboscis - a long straw-like tongue that can shoot out or curl back under its head - to extract nectar from flowers.

Wild flowers have better quality nectars than cultivated and cross-breed species. In exhibitions and conservation sites, it may not be possible to provide as many fresh plants as possible, so they are fed on simple sugar (or honey) and water solution which are either sprayed on blooms or even absorptive materials like cotton and sponge. If undistruber, butterflies can spend hours feeding off a single flower or nectar source. Butterflies are not attracted to the scent (they have highly sensitive chemical receptors) of meat and are not built to digest its juice.

We breed tropical butterfly species for exhibitions and conservation projects such as the London Butterfly House (it is illegal to capture butterflies from the wild). We feed them on our own formulation that is nature-idential and contains more of the nutrient that can be found in the wild (that is why some butterfly species also feed off over-riped/ fermenting fruits or even on riverbeds to suck minerals). This allows butterflies to live better and reproduce stronger offsprings.

In the wild, the presence of a large butterfly population is a good indicator of the environmental health of the area. It means there is abundance of flowers and plants that the adult butterflies and the young caterpillars can feed on.

Answer 4

It actually depends on the species.
Some butterflies eat nectar, some sup the juice and sugars from over-ripe fruits, but some eat rotting meat.
There are a couple of species that actually do not eat at all. They live long enough to breed and lay the eggs. Then they starve to death.

Answer 5

It's ridiculous to say that a butterfly eats steak and kidney pies - with that weight they'd never fly.
Everybody knows they can only eat oven chips 'cos they're baked, not fried...

Answer 6

They get nectar from flowers, and when they're not available I leave my Nectar Card out for them on the bird table.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Steak and kidney pies. Or nectar from flowers, which ever is available.

Answer 9

it eats nectar from flowers, will also lick bananas and fruit if left out.

Answer 10

they don;t eat,they only live for a day