#butterfly proboscis

[billionneuronscurious]

Emigrant Butterfly.

Its Anterior: Eyes, Proboscis, and Antennae.

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[ask-morpho-knight]

For the Reborn Butterfly, your opinion on sweets?

[ricopop]

Would you let him into your house yes or no. anyways i thouvht itd be cute if he was a mailman. okaayyy bye

@superbellsubways

[dazzelmethat]

Oh I forgot to put this here. I made up concept ideas for some fae. I like the idea of carrying more butterfly like traits over to them like a proboscis.

[syntheticmask]

Well, I just found a pretty fucked up Swallowtail butterfly. From what I can tell, its wings are intact and it doesn't look terribly injured, but- and I’m being serious- it's missing four of its legs, has a tiny extra mutated one up by its face (no, it's not an antenna), and its proboscis appears to be malformed or broken in some way that it can't feed. It's curled up all wrong and the end is frayed.

What. The actual. Fuck.

Turns out my mom found it lying in the middle of the road yesterday and put it in a bush. I saw it lying on the sidewalk and thought it was dead.

I'll post some pictures of it in a bit. I'm just trying to figure out if I should euthanize it or not. I'll see if it can drink, but if not, I think sticking it in the freezer will be the best method as they can't feel pain (repeating this from a single article I read as though I'm suddenly an expert on this shit).

Any suggestions?

[noctomania]

Yall.

Butterflies drink blood. Like. There are no rules in nature. Butterflies. Drink. Blood. They will gather on dead carcasses and just party like it's 1999, okay?

Everything is on the table. Stop acting like something commonly known to be fragile and gentle couldn't also be a whole-ass bloodsucker.

Do not let these flappy creatures fool you. they are planning something. We fell for their propaganda long enough!!

Wake up people, butterflies are Evil!!

[philophilophilophilo]

pachliopta aristolochiae

i love your philtrum i want to fill it with kisses

put your finger in the bag of my kisses,

rub some on your gums

[knowledge-first]

Did you know butterflies taste with their feet?

Butterflies don't have mouths in the traditional sense! Instead, they rely on their proboscis (a long, straw-like organ) to sip nectar. But before they commit to a flower, they use their tiny taste receptors located on their feet to sample the nectar first! These taste receptors help butterflies find the most sugary flowers, ensuring they get the best fuel for their fluttering journeys. So next time you see a butterfly delicately landing on a flower, remember, it's giving it a taste test first!

[genericsadanimegirl]

[cryptid-of-ohio]

*Nerd Alert*

So, I’m about to go on a bit of a tirade. From what I see in the comments, most people think that this is a type of moth. I understand why, it’s got thick antenna and a fuzzy body. However, that’s actually incorrect. This right here, is actually a subsection of butterfly known as a skipper.

Skippers are easily distinguished from moths and other butterflies through a few main factors: The flight pattern and the resting position being the easiest to see. The way I can tell it is a skipper in this picture is because of the way it is resting. If you’ll notice, it’s got its wings slightly opened, allowing you to see the inside, and its front wings are folded back at a large angle. This means it is a type of grass skipper, and not a type of spread wing skipper, which rest in a similar position to moths. Moths rest with their wings fully open, showing the inside wing but not the outside. Butterflies rest with their wings completely closed, making you unable to see the inside pattern.

Their flight pattern difference is also really interesting, even though you can’t see it in this picture. Skippers get their name because of their unique flight pattern. The structure of their wings, where their back wings and front wings overlap a lot (more than other butterflies) causes them to fly in a distinctive skipping pattern. It helps them avoid predators, as it makes them much faster and more unpredictable than other common species of butterflies. If you mix this with the fact that skippers are usually very small, with wingspans of less than an inch, it makes them near impossible for most predators to catch.

Anyways, now that I’ve ranted about why its different, I’ll attempt to ID it. It’s a bit difficult, as many skippers have very similar wings, and I only have the outer wing and bit of the inner to go off of, plus I don’t know where it was found, but god damn if I’m not gonna try.

My first though due to its coloring was a Delaware Skipper. However, the skipper in the photo has a checkered outer wing, while Delaware’s have solid outer wings, so that was thrown out.

I next turned to the large skipper, which I knew had a checkered outer wing. However, large skippers are a darker orange than the skipper in the photo, and a gray body, so I threw out that option too.

Next up was a Fiery Skipper, which I knew was yellow and checkered. However, Fiery Skippers are checkered with an ashy gray, unlike the darker yellow checkers of the photograph.

I also thought of Peck’s Skipper, but their outer wing is more brown than yellow, so that one was out too.

Those were the four I thought of off the top of my head, so now I am consulting my ID book. It’s for North American butterflies, but given that you speak English and watch Gravity Falls its not the worst guess at your home range (sorry if that’s weird).  My ID book doesn’t have a lot of Skippers in it, because you usually have to get a skipper specific ID book for that, and I don’t currently have one.

My best guess based off my book and limited knowledge at the moment is an Indian Skipper, but I’m not 100% on that. I don’t think the bodies match up. If you give me a general range where you took the photo (like a state, or even just like, southern or western America or whatever) I might be able to get a better idea on its species. If not, that’s fine. I understand.

Anyways, I hope someone found this little tirade interesting. Feel free to ask me about butterflies any time (please). It’s my oldest special interest, and I have knowledge, and more importantly opinions.

-You’re friendly neighborhood lepidoptera enthusiast 

bugs are so cute, im serious....

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[kandy-sticks-zaza-blogs]

🍯Beelzebub Redesign🐝

Since Viv didn’t do her justice or make her fat I decided to do it myself.I made her orange and yellow because pink and blue doesn’t suit her at all also they did she make her a furry???Like isn’t she a bug??? I decided to make her have a skull wings and a suit because who gave her some horrendous clothes that doesn’t make sense? She would be more like her biblically accurate looks,a bee,a hornet and a honeypot ant. Also her markings look like a sticky honey.Her proboscis is shaped like a butterfly,a mandible and a stripes like a bee. I really hate her OG design when she’s revealed,why did she choose the worse combination species???

I make her more accurate party girl vibes bc my Mom always goes out with a fancy dress and make up a lot when I was young and made her bracelet look like a bee hive. Make her based off the muse from Hercules Disney movie and Regina George personality from Mean girls or G1 Cleo from monster high.Also added some tiny crown because it shows that she’s loyalty.Why Viv makes so many skinny people when she is fat herself?Orange represents her Gluttony because Gluttony is orange.The lava lamp honey hair mow hawk and tail confused me when I looked at it also why fennec fox?? Also the choker is a yikes.Also those weird V symbols on her head is weird.

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Another idea!! What if Howdy is only a partially formed butterfly? Like, he didn’t fully pupate or something, but rather just grew bigger.

The thought that he grew a something of a proboscis-ish butterfly tongue is amusing. Not good for hot liquids, and I wanted it have a reason to look normal when lying flat in the mouth. His butterfly family members still eat, so it wouldn’t make sense for it to be his only method of eating.

And an additional Frank Frankly about to pester poor Howdy.

[whatudottu]

Introducing to you - made over the course of a few months - a visual guide to cybertronian pedipalps and proboscis!

The general gist and inspiration for such being of course the episode Thirst and the fact that, up until that point, dark energon did not have any mutagenic properties only (in the show) being utilitised to revive the dead. What if, instead of being a side effect of dark synth energon, dark energon just... reactivated dormant pedipalps (remnants of a more buggy pre-metamorphosis sparkling/protoform lifestage)?

A more comprehensive look is down below- and don't mind how it's exclusively 'Cons lmao :P

Starting off, I referenced CYLAS' canonical pedipalps to try and understand the shapes being used which resembles a lapping type mouth that bees have (so considering there is a tranformers character named Bumblebee it feels appropriate but he ISN'T HERE), let alone the flexible proboscis which I just made as a siphoning type from butterflies which; this is the wikipedia image I used to understand mouth parts :P

Breakdown himself wouldn't need to open his whole face in order to consume energon, given that he has an opening and closing jaw in addition to having the dexterity and power of limbs and a neck to not require lapping, but energon is still drunk through the proboscis like a straw.

Continuing onto characters that would NEED their pedipalps, vehicons and other faceless cold constructs (whether you have the belief every cold construct is faceless or they recently shifted to facelessness to save on costs) by technically did not metamorphose like forged mecha and thus their mouth parts have not gone dormant. Instead, their construction means they have not known anything other than pedipalps and proboscis, having no experience at all with facial expressions and thus not susceptible to phantom sensations.

Though their jaws do not have joints or at least do not have an opening to function like an enclosed mouth, vehicons still do have one on the basis of having a neck and a location to store their coiled proboscis when not in use.

Unlike other cybertronians - forged or constructed - empurata survivors have their heads and/or faces completely remolded and restructured where they do not have a functioning jaw. They have in it's stead a reconstruction of the original pedipalps formatted appropriately to the new head mould.

Monoptics like Shockwave do not have enough room in their helms to have a mouth-like structure at all, instead the neck is reconstructed to open with the pedipalps; the proboscis when fully extended appears longer in monoptics but that is due to the fact the opening is lower and closer to it's base. Nulloptics like Soundwave have their entire face replaced by their mouth, often covered up in seamless panels that give the appearance of a screen, up until the nulloptic actually replaces the panels to include the electronics necessary to protect and display visuals.

In average adult cybertronians however, the pedipalps remain dormant - at least in their use for eating - and are instead used to produce vocalisations alongside the proboscis (which still remains in use by function of the liquid energon diet), in addition to being used in expression in conjuction with the many servos operating within the faceplate. The reason why, despite the variety of things pedipalps can do now that they aren't being used to consume fuel, that empuratas and constructs cannot re/gain a face with the same ability and level of complexity of the average cybertronian is because of the hyperactive function of those very pedipalps.

Vehicons can - if they so choose - express visually through the exclusive use of their pedipalps, but factoring in a faceplate with all of it's own complicated servos intricately woven into each other, the faceplate lacks the ability to split along the seams of the pedipalps and would restrain their mobility and prevent the cold construct from refueling. Empurata have a similar issue with the addition of their lack of functioning jaws and their modified head structure preventing the synergy of a faceplate. Nulloptics' heads are functionally all mouth so the corresponding faceplate cannot have features for optics or ridges, and monoptics' pedipalp expression is on their neck and thus a faceplate that matches where the mouth in their case would be a very bizarre choker-

And that's all folks, hope you love my cybertronian pedipalps post :P

[heartfullofleeches]

[tw/tags: Piss drinking, amab darling, ma plz don't look at your boy]

Adonis [Purple Emperor Butterfly Yan] helping his loser roommate relax during a stressful gaming session by giving them head under the desk-

It's surprising how much clarity one could have post orgasm. Who would've guessed having a roommate with a meter long proboscis and willing to wrap it around the base of your cock as you played is exactly what you needed to carry your team through a dungeon that had you all swamped prior. Your teammates praised you for your skills - unaware it was the butterfly male's warm mouth and thin tongue wrapped around your dick and draining you off all your frustrations that had thus far. This were going great. Amazing even. You reached a checkpoint and all collectively decided to take a breather to rest your cramping fingers and take care of other business. You did drink a lot while you were sitting. You tap Adonis on the shoulder, attempting to rise from the chair only to be pinned by weight and thr pleasure coursing up your spine as he hugs your legs - suckling harder as his long tongue darts from his mouth and gazes your balls.

"Dude, get up - think I gotta pee."

Adonis ignores you, hunger and lust flaring in his eyes at that dreaded word. His head rests against your stomach as he swallows your cock - a whimpers crawling from your throat as his nose bumps the building pressure in your blander.

"D-dude! I seriously gotta pee. Stop before I piss down fucking your throat!"

Adonis giggles - he fucking giggles at your obvious panic. You slap at his shoulder, tugging his matted hair which only causes the male groan out as your fingers get tangled in his locks. He throws one of your legs over his shoulder, hands moving between your thighs and fingers jamming directly into that spot of tension in your gut. You try to keep it in, but as new warmth flows around your cock and on his tongue you're unable to control the continuing stream. Adonis coos, purring around your length as he stroke your stomach - hot piss trickling down his throat and from the corners of his mouth.

Your cock twitches with arousing as his tongue balls over your slit, lips voiding your spent body of every drop of liquid gold it had to give. He finally gives you pause, kissing the sensitive head as your wet cock falls on his cheek. Face flushed and in a love clouded daze, Adonis smiles - gripping you with shaky fingers and pumping slowly as your teammates pile back into the call.

"Thanks.... I need something to drink before we started again."