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Liquids make up the diet of butterflies.

Specifically, butterflies have sipping mouthparts in the form of a tube-like proboscis. It can be compared to a tongue. The preferred liquid is flower nectar. But butterflies are known to take in minerals through clustering around mud puddlesand the liquids in rotting fruit and decaying animal flesh.

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