#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!!

[mailb0xbunii]

my favorite hc is that e2gem has a proboscis . built in straw to dink her oiter

[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

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[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!

[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.