Butterfly-plants that butterflies like to eat How a butterfly eats What do butterflies eat? Actually, butterflies do not eat at all. Well, at least not in the traditional sense. Instead of eating, butterflies get their nurishment from drinking. They ha ve a long narrow tube in their mouth called a proboscis that acts as a straw. They usually set o n top of a flower and drink the nectar. To see a congregation of many kinds of butterflies together they feed on small puddles on the grouind or wet areas on leaves and plants . See the section below if you are interested in what Caterpillars eat. Did You Know? Butterflies can taste with their feet. They have six lets and they each have sensors on them that can tell just by landing on a flower what it taste like. Butterfly food What do butterflies eat? They eat anything that can dissolve in water, They mostly feed on nectar from flowers but also eat tree sap, dung, pollen, or rotting fruit. They are attracted to sodium found in salt and sweat...
