A Frightening Fact About Butterflies That Most People Don’t Know…
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Everyone loves butterflies because they’re just so beautiful!
Did you know that all butterflies, if given the opportunity, will drink your blood?
There aren’t any butterflies capable of inflicting a bloody wound on a human.
Only if given access to the stuff, butterflies have been known to settle in and slurp it right up.
It may sound disturbing, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Blood contains all manner of minerals and nutrients that are beneficial for most living organisms.
It also contains a significant amount of sodium and glucose, two essential dietary blocks for most butterflies. Both of these are also found in fruit.
Hovering over pools of fluids is a practice called mud-puddling. Butterflies examine puddles of mud, blood, feces, or gore and extract whatever nutrients are available to them.
Another common source of mud-puddling? Tears, another rich source of sodium.
Caiman with butterfly and bee. Along the shores of the Puerto Viejo and the Sarapiquí Rivers it is common to encounter sunning caimans and crocodiles. What is unusual is to see them interacting with other wildlife. This butterfly (a Julia butterfly, Drya iulia, of the family Nymphalidae) and a solitary bee (possible Centris sp., Anthophoridae) were seen drinking the salty “tears” of the caiman.Salt (sodium) in liquid form is hard to find in nature and caimans and turtles offer this essential mineral to a few species.
Just try not to think about that the next time one of these beautiful creatures lands on your shoulder!
Did we mention there is a species of moth that will actually bite you to extract the yummy red stuff?
I don’t know about you, but I’m never going to be able to look at butterflies the same way again.
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