Small Tortoiseshell butterflies drink nectar as their main source of nutrients. The butterflies especially enjoy red and purple flowers. These colors are at the ends of the visual light spectrum for humans.
Small Tortoiseshell was created in 1758.
Butterflies eat nectar from flowers. Some don't eat at all they just mate then die. Animals such as birds, lizards and small mammals eat butterflies.
Frogs, adult or tadpoles, eat insects like dragonflies, butterflies, small fishes.
small bugs
human food
ants do eat butterflies
golden silk spiders eat: flies wasp bees small moths and butterflies
Owl butterflies usually eat bananas.
butterflies eat nectar from flowers.
do butterflies eat bananas
Dragonflies generally eat mosquitoes and other small insects like flies, bees, ants, and butterflies.
Many birds eat butterflies and caterpillars.