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The Digestive System of a Butterfly

What is your animal's digestive system adapted to?

What structures or organs do humans have that your animal does not?

Special behaviors that your animal has to acquire/digest food.

What structures or organs your animal has that humans do not have?

  • Eating liquids
  • The butterfly only eats and feeds on liquids.

  • Liver

  • Gallbladder

  • Pancreas

What structures or organs might give you a clue as to what a butterfly eats?

  • Malpighian tubules
  • Absorbs solutes, water, and wastes and helps excrete them.

  • Crop
  • Expanded, muscular pouch part of the esophagus.

  • Proboscis
  • a flexible tongue.
  • Male butterflies
  • Mud-puddling
  • Sipping sodium and amino acids from nutrient-rich mud puddles

  • All butterflies
  • Crop
  • Temporarily stores food and prepares it for digestion.
  • Malpighian tubules
  • Absorb solutes, water, and wastes and help excrete them.
  • Proboscis
  • Proboscis

Anatomy of a butterfly

Proboscis #4 on chart

By: Sofia, Bijan, and Trent

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