Question

What is the food of butterfly and what is the feeding habit of butterfly?

Answer 1

Butterflies can eat anything that can dissolve in water.


They mostly feed on nectar from flowers but also eat tree sap, dung, pollen, or rotting fruit.

They are attracted to sodium found in salt and sweat.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Each species of butterflies has nectar plants that they prefer but many adult butterflies will feed from a wide variety of nectar sources. Butterflies are not as specific in their food source as are their caterpillars. A few adult butterfly species even prefer rotting fruit and dung as opposed to nectar.

They drink through a tube-like tongue called a proboscis. It uncoils to sip liquid food, and then coils up again into a spiral when the butterfly is notfeeding. Most butterflies prefer flower nectar, but others may feed on the liquids found in rotting fruit, in ooze from trees, and in animal dung.