KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Butterflies have a long tongue, called a proboscis, which they can curl and uncurl to drink through like a straw. Because of their straw-like mouthparts, butterflies are mainly restricted to a liquid diet. Butterflies use their proboscis to drink sweet nectar from flowers.

Detailed explanation-2: -The lepidopteran proboscis traditionally has been considered to function as a drinking straw, with the assumption that the insect depends only on the action of the sucking pump in its head to acquire liquids [4, 5].

Detailed explanation-3: -Background: The proboscis is an essential head appendage in insects that processes gustatory code during food intake, particularly useful considering that blood-sucking arthropods routinely reach vessels under the host skin using this proboscis as a probe.

Detailed explanation-4: -Butterflies don’t have tongues, they have a proboscis which many people think of as a tongue but it’s more like having your mouth extended into a long tube. They do have some taste buds on their proboscis and some on their antennae as well, but most of the taste buds are focused on their feet.