bafflingbiology: These butterflies are practicing haematophagy – feeding on blood. Blood is easy to consume and it contains a lot of nutrients such as proteins and lipids.  Although butterflies look elegant and fabulous, they feed on some pretty nasty stuff. Mud-puddling is a behaviour in which butterflies feed on fluid substances such as mud andContinue reading

Choose one of your gods and tell me any insect associations you might have with them.

onyxmade: whendeathfellforlife: royalfrostdragon: Persephone and butterflies.  I mean transformation is kind of the butterfly bread and butter. From Kore to Persephone. From caterpillar to butterfly. (Not that I’m calling Kore a caterpiller but metaphorically or whatever). Also butterflies are kind of hardcore. They look all pretty and cute but they eat dead things.  As aContinue reading “Choose one of your gods and tell me any insect associations you might have with them.”

What is your favorite insect? What is the insect you would least like to meet? Would you like to be in a room with your favorite insect, or only view it in a museum or at a distance?

I HATE wasps, roaches, cave crickets (UGH NO), and flies. ICK, NO. Kill them all. >_< I love butterflies, and I would gladly stay in a room full of them. So much pretty in a creature that has such a dark side. I adore them, and I’m not at all afraid of them. ^_^ 

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