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Butterflies taste using taste receptors on their feet. They step on their food, as their feet have receptors that sense dissolved sugars. This enables them to taste food sources like fermenting fruit.

In order to find the right type of plant, the butterfly's legs have special spines with chemoreceptors that detect the right match of plant chemicals. They actually drum their feet on leaves to make the plant release its juices.

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