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How do butterflies suck pollen?

Updated: 10/9/2023

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Butterflies do not drink pollen.They drink nectar and plant sugars. They only collect pollen and transport it to another plant for germination.

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butterfly's dont really do anything with pollen they just transferre it to other flowers to germinate and they use the necter from the flowers not the pollen.

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