Butterfly Drinking

Today we learned about how butterflies use a proboscis to drink sugar water off the flowers. They also like to drink orange juice off orange slices.

5 Little Butterflies

All the butterflies are out. I tried to catch one coming out on video but they are just too fast. I saw this one come out. See how the wings are curled up.

Also, this is something interesting we learned about butterflies. Any extra pigment that they do not use when making their wing color they spit out. It look like blood. Do you see all the red on their home.