Adult butterflies do not eat plants but live on fluid nutrients gathered from flowering plants. Different species of butterflies favor different flowers. The flowers they feed on can grow on plants, shrubs, vines or trees. It is the caterpillar (larval stage of butterfly life cycle) that eats various parts of plants where its larvae will hatch. Nowadays, keeping a butterfly garden is quite a hobby wherein one can grow nectar-rich flower plants, provide host plants in the garden for the adult butterfly to lay its eggs and nurture its consequent life cycle. At the end of it, that's a garden full of vibrantly colored butterflies you will have!
Butterflies use energy and nutrients primarily for flight, reproduction, and survival. They obtain energy from nectar-rich flowers, which provide sugars for flight, as well as other nutrients necessary for their development and reproduction. Butterflies also rely on amino acids and proteins from sources like rotting fruits, animal dung, and minerals in soil to support their growth and well-being.
The movements of energy and nutrients through living systems are different because energy flows unidirectionally and cannot be recycled, while nutrients cycle within ecosystems and can be reused. Energy enters ecosystems through sunlight and is lost as heat, whereas nutrients are constantly recycled through biogeochemical processes.
Food provides the body with chemical energy in the form of calories. When we digest food, it is broken down into nutrients that our bodies can use to fuel various biological processes and activities.
Plants provide energy and nutrients to other organisms through the process of photosynthesis, where they use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars. These sugars are then consumed by animals and other organisms higher up in the food chain for energy and nutrients. Additionally, roots of plants can release nutrients into the soil that can be taken up by other organisms.
Stentors obtain energy through phagocytosis, where they engulf and digest prey organisms such as bacteria or algae. They use the nutrients from these organisms to fuel their cellular processes and sustain their growth and reproduction.
From chemically burning the nutrients.
Butterflies use their energy in various ways. Butterflies use their energy to eat and to fly around their environments for example.
to have nutrients
Energy
The long thin tube is a proboscis (snout/mouth) which they use to feed-- butterflies use it to sip nectar or other nutrients, and mosquitoes to obtain either nectar or blood.
energy.
they use the energy of the plant as nutrients.
Energy metabolism is a reaction that allows cells to get energy from nutrients. A catabolic pathway is a series of chemical reactions that break down the molecules to produce energy.
Fungi get their energy from waste materials and decaying organisms. They are able to use hyphae which absorb nutrients in one area. The hyphae will then grow out as a means to absorb other nutrients.
Roots to absorb nutrients from the ground and leaves to absorb the suns rays for energy.
Cells make and use energy through the process of photosynthesis. This process both creates energy and uses energy to deliver the nutrients.
to provide energy
yes they do need energy