#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

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Your blood loving yassified howdy made me remember that there's a family of moths that are quite literally titled "vampire moths" that like to drink blood [and fruit juice!]

ok i had to look those guys up and! wow! what the fuck! nature took one of its Best things (moths) and combined them with one of its Worst (mosquitos). they're so cute and yet i'm reflexively Afraid!

[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!

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[1dragon-mustard1]

Deer knock baby birds out of trees to make up for deficiencies in their diet

This is just a fact, it is not fun

What is fun is that some butterflies will cannibalize, others will feed on decaying fluids

And maybe just drink your blood

Butterflies are metal, this is fun and a fact

"fun fact!" i cheer, before saying something that is not fun nor a fact

[genericsadanimegirl]

[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.

[purple-raspberries]

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.

[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....