Why do butterflies land on poop

Now, not only do you have butterflies eating excrement and releasing anal jets, but flying drunk, too! Okay, maybe not drunk. They just use the alcohol metabolically. Then, there are the Death-Eaters. One fluid I forgot to mention is pure gold—liquid gold. I mean urine. Butterflies love urine. Apparently, especially, human urine. While most butterflies are rather passive in their nausea-inducing eating of nasties, some are decidedly more tenacious in their efforts.

The Malagasy Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica has been documented to land on the faces of sleeping birds to drink tears lachryphagy from underneath their eyelids! Next time you have a butterfly land on you, just think—and remember. And then shudder in disgust while you frantically, but carefully, shoo them away to watch their graceful beauty from a distance with a healthy dose of denial. While these subjects might seem more intimidating than others, they impart valuable knowledge to help students for years to come.

To help students embrace STEM From the birds who fly, to porcupines and people observing the sky, Here at Pacific Science Center we constantly encourage everyone to be curious. Explore your world. Look for things large and small and try to figure out how things work. A member of our Animal Care staff has done just that and in the end, produced some amazing art. Or maybe he's interested in her tears: In , one butterfly was observed drinking the tears of a sunning spectacled caiman, and photo evidence shows they drink the tears of tortoises, too.

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