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Do butterflies have a sense of smell?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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11y ago

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Adult butterflies, as well as caterpillars, breathe through a series of tiny openings along the sides of their bodies, called "spiracles." From each spiracle, a tube called a "trachea" carries oxygen into the body. Butterflies don't have noses and lungs as we do. Butterflies "smell" with their antennae. so no, I'm afraid butterflies do not have noses.

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14y ago

Well not really, they do have nostrils though.

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11y ago

No they have a tube like a straw that curls up when not in use

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13y ago

Butterflies have spiracles (small holes along their sides) which they breathe through.

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No they don't have a nose, but they have the sense of smell. They have nostrils on the tips of their snouts, but they don't have a nose that's visible or that sticks out like humans'.

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11y ago

Yes they do. Their sense of smell is located in their antennae.

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Some do, like moths and butterflies, but grasshoppers and beetles smell with their antennae.

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Yes, they do they have 19

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