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No. Only the caterpillars of butterflies eat solid food such as leaves and plant parts.
Adult butterflies themselves do not eat, but drink. They usually feed on nectar from plant flowers or tree sap. Some butterflies will feed on the sugars in rotting fruits. The Harvester butterfly actually pierces the bodies of woolly aphids and drinks their fluids.
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Do butterflies eat apples?
butterflies eat marigolds ; balm ;coneflowers ;lilacs;peonies;bananas ; watermelon; strawberrie.
Can butterflies chew their food?
Butterflies do not chew their food, but eat by their proboscis or tongue. The proboscis helps the butterflies to suck the nectar from flowers.
What kind of birds eat butterflies?
Tropical Region Birds and Insectivorous Birds eat butterflies but there might be more birds that eat butterflies.
What do Hairstreak Butterflies eat?
Hairstreak butterflies are native to Colorado. They lay their eggs on the leaves on the Gamble Oak. The young will eat the leaves of the tree while the adult butterflies live off of the tree sap.
What are some host plants for butterflies?
A host plant means a plant that a caterpillar lives on. Adult butterflies eat different food than their caterpillars. Monarch adults like zinna and butterfly bush but monarch caterpillars like milkweed.
What insect do butterflies eat?
Butterflies do not eat insects, or any other solid food. Adult butterflies themselves do not eat, but drink. They usually feed on nectar from plant flowers or tree sap. Some butterflies will feed on the sugars in rotting fruits. The Harvester butterfly actually pierces the bodies of woolly aphids and drinks their fluids.
Do butterflies eat bread?
No. Only the caterpillars of butterflies eat solid food such as leaves and plant parts. They do not eat bread. Adult butterflies themselves do not eat, but drink. They usually feed on nectar from plant flowers or tree sap. Some butterflies will feed on the sugars in rotting fruits. The Harvester butterfly actually pierces the bodies of woolly aphids and drinks their fluids.
Do butterflies eat Mosquitos?
No. Adult butterflies do not eat solid food of any sort. They usually feed on nectar from plant flowers or tree sap. Some butterflies will feed on the sugars in rotting fruits. The Harvester butterfly actually pierces the bodies of woolly aphids and drinks their fluids, but it does not eat mosquitoes either.
Do butterflies eat baby grasshoppers?
No. Adult butterflies themselves do not eat any solid food, but drink. They usually feed on nectar from plant flowers or tree sap. Some butterflies will feed on the sugars in rotting fruits. The Harvester butterfly actually pierces the bodies of woolly aphids and drinks their fluids.
Does the butterfly eat other food that plants and leaves and what?
Adult butterflies with one exception only eat nectar from flowers.
Do butterflies eat apples?
butterflies eat marigolds ; balm ;coneflowers ;lilacs;peonies;bananas ; watermelon; strawberrie.
What does an adult butterflies like to eat?
Plants
Can butterflies eat pears plums or tomatoes?
ADULT butterflies and moths can not only eat nectar, but they can also eat fruit, carrion, fecal matter, one moth is known to drink blood, as well as several other food sources. The food source depends on the species and sometimes on the season the adult is active. Caterpillars have different diets than adults.
Do butterflies and grasshoppers eat herbs?
Grasshoppers do but butterflies (the ADULT stage of a caterpillar) do not (the caterpillars do though).
Are butterflies a carnivore?
No. Adult butterflies do not eat solid food of any description. They usually feed on nectar from plant flowers or tree sap. Some butterflies will feed on the sugars in rotting fruits. The Harvester butterfly actually pierces the bodies of woolly aphids and drinks their fluids.
What do adults frogs eat?
Frogs, adult or tadpoles, eat insects like dragonflies, butterflies, small fishes.
Can monarch butterflies eat grass?
No. Adult butterflies of any species do not eat grass. They must drink nectar and sap from flowers and plants.
