Hey. I know you're there. I know you're reading. No need to hide.
Why don't you sit down with me for a while, and I'll recount some facts about butterflies while we wait for.. whatever there is to come?

My name's Seb, by the way. I've only recently acquired this URL and figured, why not make it a fact page on butterflies? They're beautiful and interesting creatures and I think they deserved to be talked about, and not just for their beauty.

1. Contrary to popular belief, nectar is not the only thing butterflies consume. They do this thing called puddling where they seek out nutrients in moist places. This includes but are not limited to rotting organic matter such as plants and carrion, mud, feces, and even blood.
2. Butterflies and moths are the only insects that have scales covering their wings.
   • They also differ from other insects by their ability to curl up their proboscis or the appendage they use to feed.
3. Butterflies have taste receptors on their feet.
   • Dwight Minnich, an American insect physiologist, found this out back in 1921 through an experiment involving a clothes peg and a red admiral butterfly. Using a sugar solution, he found out that every time the butterfly detected sugar, it triggered its PER (proboscis extension reflex), causing its proboscis to extend to stimulation.
4. Mother butterflies are often very picky when it comes to where they lay their eggs, to the point that some caterpillars will only feed on one plant family. In order to make sure that the plant she lays her eggs on are suitable, the female butterfly often 'drums' her legs to pick up the chemicals of the plant with her feet and ensure that it would be satisfactory for her offspring to feed on.